No book ever ends, when it's full of your friends.

I never get any protests from children. All you get are giggles of mirth and squirms of delight. I know what children like.

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it.

Had I not had children of my own, I would have never written books for children, nor would I have been capable of doing so.

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.

My darling," she said at last, are you sure you don't mind being a mouse for the rest of your life?" "I don't mind at all" I said. It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.

I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?