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.

Life is more fun if you play games.

The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.

My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?" "I don't mind at all" I said. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.

By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.

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