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.

Perhaps we are born knowing the tales of our grandmothers and all their ancestral kin continually run in our blood repeating them endlessly, and the shock they give us when we first bear them is not of surprise but of recognition.

And all the time he was enjoying his badness, hugging it to him as though it were a friend, and not caring a bit.

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

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.

Don't you know that everybody's got a Fairyland of their own?

I was brought up Irish, where there was room for my own private world.