“Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you.”

But it is impossible to replace a person one has loved to distraction.

And don’t worry about the bits you can’t understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music.

Life is more fun if you play games.

I doubt I would have written a line, unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is sparky.

The snozberries taste like snozberries!

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

A little magic can take you a long way.

When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.

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

And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

I was glad my father was an eye-smiler. It meant he never gave me a fake smile because it’s impossible to make your eyes twinkle if you aren’t feeling twinkly yourself.

There are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven’t started wondering about yet.

I’m the kind of boy that can fall in love with any girl because I love with the heart, not the eyes.

You and your sea glass green kaleidoscope eyes have always been my kryptonite.

My girlfriend said, Emo, I’m seeing another man. I said, Well, try rubbing your eyes or something.

Let me gaze deeper into your eyes and thank the cosmos in disguise.

You make me feel the way Christmas did when I was a kid, I’d close my eyes look to the skies and magic became real.

Close your eyes, open everything.

A lady likes to be complimented on her looks, her eyes, her figure. But the personality comments are much appreciated.

They’re like lips, they’re like noses, they’re like eyeballs, you should be able to have them out all the time if you want. Nipples are beautiful things, don’t hide them.