Fairy tales have always got to have something a bit scary for children - as long as you make them laugh as well.

Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don't know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.

We is in Dream Country,' the BFG said. 'This is where all dreams is beginning.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

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

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.