I think the idea of Mary Poppins has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.

Who are you?" she inquired, as the cat passed by. I'm the cat that looked at a king," he replied. And I," she remarked with a toss of her head, "am the cow that jumped over the moon." Is that so?" said the cat. "Whatever for?" The cow stared. She had never been asked that question before. And suddenly it occured to her that there might something else to do than jumping over moons.

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.

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

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

Child and serpent, star and stone — all one.

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