Everything means something.

Make this the golden rule, the equivalent of the Hippocratic oath: Everything we ask a child to do should be worth doing.

'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.

The Lord of the Rings' is fundamentally an infantile work. Tolkien is not interested in the way grownup, adult human beings interact with each other. He's interested in maps and plans and languages and codes.

So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

When it comes to telling children stories, they don’t need simple language. They need beautiful language.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.