Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us.

We must beware the revenge of the starved senses, the embittered animal in its prison.

To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.

Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

I fancy that the Hell of Too Many People would occupy a respectable place in the hierarchy of infernal regions.

Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.

A good holiday is one spent among people whose notions of time are vaguer than yours.