You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

For me there are no answers, only questions, and I am grateful that the questions go on and on. I don't look for an answer, because I don't think there is one. I'm very glad to be the bearer of a question.

Tea is balm for the soul, don't you agree?

I don't think that children, if left to themselves, feel that there is an author behind a book, a somebody who wrote it. Grown-ups have fostered this quotient of identity, particularly teachers. Write a letter to your favorite author and so forth. When I was a child I never realized that there were authors behind books. Books were there as living things, with identities of their own.

I think that Mary Poppins needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.

What I want to know is this: Are the stars gold paper or is the gold paper stars?