Bumble-Ardy looks like a happy book. That's the funniest thing about it. But this was survival. I was working very hard to survive.

And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming wild things.

'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

And the walls became the world all around.

There must be more to life than having everything.

I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.

Emeralds,' said the rabbit. 'Emeralds make a lovely gift.

Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

I wish you all good things. Live your life, live your life, live your life.

A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful.

And now," cried Max, "let the wild rumpus start!

Grace is a good fortune.

There will never come a time when I will be able to resist my emotions.

I do believe, as my father once said, that "No matter how hard the loss, defeat might serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out."

You don't like the girl. You don't know what color eyes she has, you don't like her.

We see signs of it perhaps for 28 das or 34 days, then it goes away. Yet we are different.

Consultancy can be too short; or too long.

People's backyards are much more interesting than their front gardens, and houses that back on to railways are public benefactors.

What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.

I have nothing left to prove. I've already done enough to my neck.

You know you're old when your family talk about you in front of you. What are we going to do with Pop? We have company tonight.