We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open

I hate university towns and university people, who are the same everywhere, with pregnant wives, sprawling children, many books and hideous pictures on the walls ... Oxford is very pretty, but I don't like to be dead.

Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light.

You are the music while the music lasts.

An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.

The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?