There are few places in England where you can get so much wildness and desolation of sea and sandhills, wood, green marsh and grey saltings as at Wells in Norfolk.

Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers - a living prismatic gem.... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.

We know that our senses are subject to decay, that from our middle years they are decaying all the time; but happily it is as if we didn't know and didn't believe.

There are many Green Dragons in this world of wayside inns, even as there are many White Harts, Red Lions, Silent Women and other incredible things.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

The puma is, with the exception of some monkeys, the most playful animal in existence.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

Of all the people I have ever known you are the only one I don't know.

In going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past.

You cannot fly like an eagle with the wings of a wren.

My feathered friends were so much to me that I am constantly tempted to make this sketch of my first years a book about birds and little else.

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place.  I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family.  But no one is offering any clear information.

I love to engage in repartee with people who are stupider than I am.

Loneliness watches and sights, then climbs into my bed and pulls the covers over... himself, fully dressed, shoes and all. He’s going to make me sleep with him again tonight, i just know it.

All the world seemed suddenly dream, for in what waking world would a prince deceive his own people for the benefit of a slave? ~ Ayden

Turn around, Piglet. Step lightly, Pooh. This silly ol' dance is perfect for two.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Perfectionism kills art. I find that if I criticise myself, it spoils the fun. You can get paralysed by analysis - it takes all the playfulness away.

What is troubling us is the tendency to believe that the mind is like a little man within.

Certain comedians work with certain actors; like Adam Sandler worked with Jack Nicholson.