I was already beginning to realize that the only way to conduct oneself in a situation where bombs rained down and bullets whizzed past, was to accept the dangers and all the consequences as calmly as possible. Fretting and sweating about it all was not going to help.

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.

I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.

Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

There's nothin' you can get from a book that you can't get from a television fastah!" -Harry Wormwood