Everything Great That Ever Happened In This

You Understand Teacher, Don't You, That When You Have A Mother Who's An Angel And A Father Who Is A Cannibal King, And When You Have Sailed On The Ocean All Your Whole Life, Then You Don't Know Just How To Behave In School With All The Apples And Ibexes.

No Fridolf, Bother All This Learning. I Can't Study Anymore Because I Must Climb The Mast To See What Kind Of Weather We're Going To Have Tomorrow.

There Is Very Little You Can Beat Into A Child, But No Limit To What You Can Hug Out Of It.

I Have Never Experienced Being Madly In Love The Way Most People Seem To Have Been, Although It Is Not Something I Would Miss. Instead I Have Had An Enormous Ability To Love My Children And My Grandchildren And My Great Grandchildren.

And So I Write The Way I Myself Would Like The Book To Be – If I Were A Child. I Write For The Child Within Me.