My dear young fellow,' the Old-Green-Grasshopper said gently, 'there are a whole lot of things in this world of ours you haven't started wondering about yet.

A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.

Write for pleasure and publish for money.

My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you.

As long as there is one heart on Earth where I still live, my memory will not die.

I want to understand you, I study your obscure language.

Somewhere between obsession and compulsion is impulse.

Better the illusions that exalt us than ten thousand truths.

It is better to have dreamed a thousand dreams that never were than never to have dreamed at all.

Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.

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

I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.

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

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

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

Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful.

The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.

Life is more fun if you play games.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.