Roald Dahl

All Norwegian children learn to swim when they are very young because if you can't swim it is difficult to find a place to bathe.

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.

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.

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.