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.

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

It's just certain people that I get the giggles with.

You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.