Could it be ... that the hero is one who is willing to set out, take the first step, shoulder something? Perhaps the hero is one who puts his foot upon a path not knowing what he may expect from life but in some way feeling in his bones that life expects something of him.

Trouble trouble and it will trouble you.

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

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

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

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.

There are worlds beyond worlds and times beyond times, all of them true, all of them real, and all of them (as children know) penetrating each other.