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

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

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

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.

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

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