“The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.”

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.

I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.

Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.

A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.

I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.

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

It’s a funny thing about mothers and fathers. Even when their own child is the most disgusting little blister you could ever imagine, they still think that he or she is wonderful.

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

So please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall.

I understand what you’re saying, and your comments are valuable, but I’m gonna ignore your advice.

You can write about anything for children as long as you’ve got humour.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

I’ve heard tell that what you imagine sometimes comes true.

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

There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you’ll be free if you truly wish to be.

The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book – it makes a very poor doorstop.

A person has to keep something to herself or you’re life is just a layout in a magazine.

Defend the Bible? I’d sooner defend a lion. You don’t defend the Bible; you open its cage and let it roar.

Nobody can take away from you those texts from the Bible which you have learned by heart.

Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.

That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

Religion and faith are very personal matters. So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the Constitution of India.