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.

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.

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.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

I am convinced that the reason so many fans leave Dodger Stadium after the seventh inning is that they become bored.

I don't want to get into autobiographies; I don't want to talk about myself.