"It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you."

"[Initially referring to Dahl's attitude towards Jews.] This raises the question whether this is a man whose fictions …"

"“Words,” he said, “is oh such a twitch-tickling problem to me all my life. So you must simply try to be patient and s…"

"One right is not making two lefts."

"Little Billy’s mother was always telling him exactly what he was allowed to do and what he was not allowed to do. All…"

"My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends — It gives a lovely l…"

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden i…"

""This is the repulsant snozzcumber! I squoggle it! I mispise it! I dispunge it! But if I is refusing to guzzle up hum…"

"Ah, but they is not killing their own kind," the BFG said. "Human beans is the only animals that is killing their own…"

"[After his comments to Michael Coren in the 1983 interview cited above] Firmly but not rudely I told him that my fath…"