When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!

Sex is like nose picking. It's fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it's disgusting watching someone else doing it.

We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.

To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.

Oh where, oh where had Snow White gone? She'd found it easy, being pretty To hitch a ride into the city.

Some people when they have taken too much and have been driven beyond the point of endurance, simply crumble and give up. There are others, though they are not many, who will for some reason always be unconquerable. You meet them in time of war and also in time of peace. They have an indomitable spirit and nothing, neither pain nor torture nor threat of death, will cause them to give up.