Roald Dahl

The adult is the enemy of the child because of the awful process of civilizing this thing that, when it is born, is an animal with no manners, no moral sense at all.

I go down to my little hut, where it's tight and dark and warm, and within minutes I can go back to being six or seven or eight again.

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

I am tired of angry feminists. I like my women happy, gregarious... and bathed.

Marriage can be work, it can be difficult, it can be hard, but I think working through those times makes you stronger as a couple and as a unit.