“Like all children they only wanted to be known, and cared little about giving that gift to others.”

“Children are a precious gift, but they belong to no one but themselves. They are only lent us a little while.”

“If I am to be known for anything, I would like it to be for encouraging Canadians, for knowing a little bit about their daily, extraordinary courage. And for wanting that courage to be recognized.”

“What's the use in our caring about hard words after this,—'atheists,' heretics, infidels, and the like? They're, after all, only the cinders picked up out of those heaps of ashes round the stumps of the old stakes where they used to burn men, women, and children for not thinking just like other folks.”

“[on the Borgias' illegitimate births] All children are natural, but some are more so than others and are therefore known as natural children.”

“Be who you want to be and not care about what others think.”

“By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;
The sports of children satisfy the child.”

“It is frightfully difficult to know much about the fairies, and almost the only thing known for certain is that there are fairies wherever there are children.”

“I think reading is a gift. It was a gift that was given to me as a child by many people, and now as an adult and a writer, I'm trying to give a little of it back to others. It's one of the greatest pleasures I know.”

“We never really cared about all the things that other people cared about, you know? Like, people recognizing me on the street never interested me. I've always been kind of suspicious of the world, anyway, so it's pretty easy for me to live in my own little world.”