My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.

You can ask me anything you like about my work, but I'll never talk about myself.

I hate being good.
-Mary Poppins

I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.

Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.

'Friend Monkey' is really my favorite of all my books because the Hindu myth on which it is based is my favorite - the myth of the Monkey Lord who loved so much that he created chaos wherever he went.