Trouble trouble and it will trouble you.

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

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

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

With the word creative we stand under a mystery. And from time to time that mystery, as if it were a sun, sends down upon one head or another, a sudden shaft of light - by grace, one feels, rather than deserving, for it always is something given, free, unsought, unexpected.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for, if you are honest, you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.