Those who don't believe in magic will never find it.

Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.

Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.

The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.

I regard each sentence as a little wheel... Now and again I try to put a really big one next to a very small one in such a way that the big one, turning slowly, will make the small one spin so fast that it hums. Very tricky, that.

A life is made up of a great number of small incidents, and a small number of great ones.

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.