Stories are like birds flying, here and gone in a moment.

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

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.

I hate being good. -Mary Poppins

A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

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

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