I have written, probably, more books for children than any other writer, from story-books to plays, and can claim to know more about interesting children than most.

The best way to treat obstacles is to use them as stepping-stones. Laugh at them, tread on them, and let them lead you to something better.

Leave something for someone but dont leave someone for something.

You're trying to escape from your difficulties, and there never is any escape from difficulties, never. They have to be faced and fought.

Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.

If you can't look after something in your care, you have no right to keep it.

I think people make their own faces, as they grow.

It wasn't a bit of good fighting grown-ups. They could do exactly as they liked.

I'm good at exploring roofs. You never know when that kind of thing comes in useful.

Here Mr Potts come here you little idiot!

We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

You can live with me in this house I've built out of writers blocks.

If literature stays away from evil, it rapidly becomes boring.

Old age is Satan’s last chance to blow us off course.

I felt the human disease that is ignorance suddenly leave my body. Just like that. Like a hot, desperate piss after a long car ride.

Capitalism has turned human beings into commodities. To the owner of a restaurant: the cook and a bag of potatoes are equally important.

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.

Gentlemen never wear brown in London.

Have fun - a smile is the most beautiful thing on a woman.

I just started writing and writing for people. And then, like I guess after (a) year of getting some placements, I kinda got a shot to be an artist. Long story short I think, yeah.

... no community where more than one-half of the adults are disfranchised and otherwise incapacitated by law and custom, can be free from great vices. Purity is inconsistent with slavery.