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

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 don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as somebody loves you.

You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.

Then suddenly, he was struck by a powerful but simple little truth, and it was this: that English grammar is governed by rules that are almost mathematical in their strictness!

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

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

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.

Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.

Give us strength, oh Lord, to let our children starve.

Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

Two rights don’t equal a left.

Feminism was established to allow unattractive women easier access to the mainstream.

It is freedom that allows ordinary people to do extraordinary things.

I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely.

Aggressive mindset allows for less pain physically and mentally.

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

We do not need to be afraid, because God will change our hearts and give us the blessing reserved for those who allow Him to change them.

There’s a drive in me that won’t allow me to do certain things that are easy.