We want to get them excited about flying.

Still, some nights I grieved. I grieved as much at what I knew must be the fleeting nature of my present happiness as any loss, any past. We lived on some edge, if we ever lived on a rolling plain. Who knew what attack, what illness. That doubleness again. Like flying: the stillness and speed, serenity and danger.

(We received this letter) because somebody wrote down the wrong thing or dropped the paper. According to the school district, they weren't turned in. I'm not paying for these uniforms because I know Patrick turned them in.

If we feel they're mature enough, we may allow them to hold onto the stick.

I don't see how you can avoid the fact that the books are riddled with sadism, racism, sexism. In books, readers tend to skate over all these horrible ambiguities. The moment they're put on film, it's very difficult to duck them.

All the figures show that film-makers and publishers go for the safe option. You go for the safest bottom line and as long as Dahl is selling a lot of books you can't go wrong.