I like enthusiasts of any kind.

For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.

The secret of life', he said, 'is to become very very good at somethin' that's very very 'ard to do.

Let your love out

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long...

... and when he put his mind to it, he could make his words coil themselves around and around the listener until they held her in some sort of a mild hypnotic spell.

What she needed was just one person, one wise and sympathetic grown-up who could help her.

Oh, my sainted aunt! Don't mention that disgusting stuff in front of me! Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!

My candle burns at both ends it will not last the night but arh my friends and oh my foes it gives a lovely light

Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.

We must hurry!’ said Mr. Wonka. ‘We have so much time and so little to do! No! Wait! Strike that! Reverse it!

It is most unlikely. But--here comes the big "but"--not impossible.

What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!

There is little point in teaching anything backwards. The whole object of life, Headmistress, is to go forwards.

Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?

However small the chance might be of striking lucky, the chance was there.

Rainbow drops - suck them and you can spit in six different colours.

I'm afraid men are not always quite as clever as they think they are. You will learn that when you get a bit older, my girl.

You is getting nosier than a parker.

Hooray!" said the Chief of the Army. "Let's blow everyone up! Bang-bang! Bang-bang!

EATABLE MARSHMALLOW PILLOWS LICKABLE WALLPAPER FOR NURSERIES HOT ICE CREAMS FOR COLD DAYS COWS THAT GIVE CHOCOLATE MILK FIZZY LIFTING DRINKS SQUARE SWEETS THAT LOOK ROUND

Never do anything by halves if you want to get away with it. Be outrageous. Go the whole hog. Make sure everything you do is so completely crazy it’s unbelievable.