A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.

If you want to find Cherry-Tree Lane all you have to do is ask the Policeman at the cross-roads.

Michael, "I never expected the wish to come true."

The Trout, "Great Oceans! Why bother to wish it, then? I call that simply a waste of time.

A very excellent and worthy person, thoroughly reliable in every particular.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.

I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.