“It is a terrible thing for an author to have a lot of people running about his book without any invitation from him at all.”

She would know a good thing to do without thinking about it.

A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.

So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book.

What I say is that, if a man really likes potatoes, he must be a pretty decent sort of fellow.

Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die. Still you wait and will not try – A bird with wings who dares not rise and fly.

The best way to write poetry, letting things come.

To seem natural rather than to be natural.

War is something of man’s own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.

Walking with her man, Lost in a dream

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just going along, listening to all the things you can’t hear, and not bothering.

It gets you nowhere if the other person’s tail is only just in sight for the second half of the conversation.

Tigers don’t like honey.

I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn’t anymore.

Let’s begin by taking a smallish nap or two.

You chose books, I chose looks . Now see the difference?

You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.

When you’re old enough to write a book for children, by then you’ll have become a grown up and have lost all your jokeyness. Unless you’re an undeveloped adult and still have an enormous amount of childishness in you.

If past history was all that is needed to play the game of money, the richest people would be librarians.

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.

The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around.

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.