The difference between him and the other boys at such a time was that they knew it was make-believe, while to hime make-believe and true were exactly the same thing. This sometimes troubled them, as when they had to make-believe that they had had their dinners.

It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.

On these magic shores children at play are for ever beaching their coracles. We too have been there; we can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more.

Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

We are all failures - at least the best of us are.

If 'Hamlet' had been written in these days it would probably have been called 'The Strange Affair at Elsinore.

Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.