I think people should be given a test much like driver's tests as to whether they're capable of being parents!

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!

Fear is the impotence of the soul.

But the memories that hang heaviest are the easiest to recall.

...So little knowsAny but God alone to value rightThe good before him but perverts best thingsTo worst abuse or to their meanest use.

So you killed him with what now?""I tried that Dr. Phil book at first"..."And I finished it off with the toilet seat. Just so you know, you left it up again. That drives me crazy.

I get very excited when I wake up in the morning and I am just full of oxygen.

Vice is basically the love of failure.

Reality is a creation of our excesses.

I tried to give up drugs by drinking.

Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?

Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.