"We worked together for seven years. Tenniel and other artists declared I would not work with Carroll for seven weeks!…"

"To have known the man was even as great a treat as to read his books. Lewis Carroll was as unlike any other man as hi…"

"The artist's tact in meeting the author in the wood where things have no names kept their association alive for the s…"

"that he cares for nothing except what might commend itself to a virtuoso Pagan, and thinks only as men thought before…"

"... she saw herself to be: a demystifier, a critical observer of social processes and systems, an outsider who could …"

"cultivated the role of and/or witch, and — in the (1979) — rewrote the with pistol-toting Mother riding to the rescue…"

"My grandfather was the subject of my best stories. ... He behaved fantastically badly. ... My grandfather was a pries…"

"Grandfather's skirts would flop in the wind along the path and I would hang on. He often found things to do in the , …"

"... never frequent enough to explain the amount of wine he got through ... Eventually the Church stopped his supply a…"

"life seemed a perpetual-motion machine, or an effect of gravity, something cyclic and unstoppable."