The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.

I'm right and you're wrong, I'm big and you're small, and there's nothing you can do about it.

The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.

It was slowly beginning to dawn upon Henry that nothing is any fun if you can get as much of it as you want. Especially money.

Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

Obscurity is never a virtue.