A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly.
Writing is mainly perspiration, not inspiration.
You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It’s made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!
The greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places.
Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.
In any event, parents never underestimated the abilities of their own children. Quite the reverse. Sometimes it was well nigh impossible for a teacher to convince the proud father or mother that their beloved offspring was a complete nitwit.
To shipbrokers, coal was black gold.
Homesickness is a bit like seasickness. You don’t know how awful it is unti you get it, and when you do, it hits you right in the top of the stomach and you want to die.
Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.
The reason I collect good ideas is because plots themselves are very difficult indeed to come by.
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it at all!
Candy is dandy but liqueur is quicker.
Come right up close to me and I will show you something wonderful.
I like enthusiasts of any kind.
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.
The more risks you allow your children to make, the better they learn to look after themselves.
Of course not. You can’t have a family hanging over you like a bunch of old dead goats. No offense.
Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
Sex is like nose picking. It’s fine as long as you practice it yourself, but it’s disgusting watching someone else doing it.