Having power is not nearly as important as what you choose to do with it.

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.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

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

There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity; maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.