If I have brightened up one single sad childhood, then I have at least accomplished something in my life.

Give the children love, more love and still more love – and the common sense will come by itself.

Don't let them get you down. Be cheeky. And wild. And wonderful.

Everything great that ever happened in this world happened first in somebody’s imagination.

What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.

There is very little you can beat into a child, but no limit to what you can hug out of it.

A childhood without books – that would be no childhood. That would be like being shut out from the enchanted place where you can go and find the rarest kind of joy.

I don't mind dying, I'll gladly do that, but not right now, I need to clean the house first.

I don't want to write for adults. I want to write for readers who can perform miracles. Only children perform miracles when they read.

And so I write the way I myself would like the book to be – if I were a child. I write for the child within me.

Then she yelled after the girl, 'No, we haven't seen any bald 'uns all days. But yesterday seventeen of 'em went by. Arm in arm!

I wrote '('Til) I Kissed You' about a girl I met in Australia. Her name was Lilian, and she was very, very inspirational. I was married, but... I wrote the song about her on the way back home.

I'm just learning who I am and how relationships work and how to make them function. No different from anyone else.

If you know your life chances are greatly reduced, should you be in a position to take out life insurance if that knowledge is not available to the insurers?

I have emerged victorious from my thirty years of struggle. I have freed mankind from superfluous ornament.

Sometimes I get so wrought up being brushed, poked and pinned all day.

I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.

I never knew I was a surrealist till Andre Breton came to Mexico and told me I was.

Approach the enemy with the attitude of defeating him without delay.

Well my own impression of my musical pieces is that no matter how long I've been at it, there's not much improvement. So that's kind of regrettable.

I don't think I can write the story of my life, but I can write the story of my hair.