Always be kinder than necessary.

...it was like an examination paper that asks grammar, when what you want to be asked is Kings of England.

Some of my plays peter out and some pan out.

All the world is made of faith, and trust, and pixie dust.

You [Scots] come of a race of men the very wind of whose name has swept to the ultimate seas.

There could not have been a lovelier sight; but there was none to see it except a little boy who was staring in at the window. He had ecstasies innumerable that other children can never know; but he was looking through the window at the one joy from which he must be for ever barred.

May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me.