The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.

Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.

In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.

If the Good Lord intended for us to walk, he wouldn't have invented rollar skates.

I asked my mum, who's a very clever psychotherapist, and she says that kids love stories about death; they need it, they need to have stories that deal with death and explain it, as a place to put their fears.

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

She might even be your lovely school-teacher who is reading these words to you at this very moment. Look carefully at that teacher. Perhaps she is smiling at the absurdity of such a suggestion. Don't let that put you off. It could be part of cleverness. I am not, of course, telling you for one second that your teacher actually is a witch. All I am saying is that she might be one. It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.