Mr. Twit was a twit. He was born a twit. And, now at the age of sixty, he was a bigger twit than ever.

So Matilda’s strong young mind continued to grow, nurtured by the voices of all those authors who had sent their books out into the world like ships on the sea. These books gave Matilda a hopeful and comforting message: You are not alone.

The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.

We make realities out of our dreams and dreams out of our realities. We are the dreamers of the dream.

There are many other little refinements too, Mr. Bohlen. You'll see them all when you study the plans carefully. For example, there's a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do the same thing. There'll be a whole stack of long words stored away just for this purpose." Where?" In the 'word-memory' section," he said, epexegetically.

Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.

Of course not. You can't have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.