“Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.”

“Let things taste of what they are.”

“I would go down to the kitchen, saying 'How do you do?' to whoever I met there: ...'How are you, Mrs. Cakebread?' (That was the cook: that really was her name, it wasn't a joke and no-one laughed it it.)”

“Being rich is not about how much money you have or how many homes you own; it's the freedom to buy any book you want without looking at the price and wondering if you can afford it.”

“How can you have any pudding if you don't eat your meat?”

“What does it say?" I said, when I had. She said, "It is filled with all the words for how I want you...Look.”

“I'll never know how to live, will you?”