If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

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

It's impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren't feeling twinkly yourself

Obscurity is never a virtue.

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

Here it is,' Nigel said. Mrs D, Mrs I, Mrs FFI, Mrs C, Mrs U, Mrs LTY. That spells difficulty.' How perfectly ridiculous!' snorted Miss Trunchbull. 'Why are all these women married?

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.