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

Stars are beautiful, but they must not take an active part in anything, they must just look on forever. It is a punishment put on them for something they did so long ago that no star now knows what it was.

A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

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

The gates of heaven are so easily found when we are little, and they are always standing open to let children wander in.

You just think lovely wonderful thoughts," Peter explained, "and they lift you up in the air.

astonishing splashes of colour