I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we're not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young. Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.

And it's one of the sexiest things you will ever read of how slow you should take the peach. Don't rush it.

Oh, please don't go — we'll eat you up — we love you so!

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

Bumble-Ardy is a very wicked little child as far as I'm concerned. He's not to be trusted.

My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.