“Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.”

“Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.”

“But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.”

“You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.”

“once there was a crow, it flew from the field to the hill, from hedge to hedge, and lived its life. then it died and rotted away. -what's the sense in it? there just ISN'T any!”

“You will not drown the truth in seas of blood”

“What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.”