We must not however be like the leaders of the great romantic revolt who in their eagerness to get rid of the husk of convention disregarded also the humane aspiration.
I arise full of eagerness and energy knowing well what achievement lies ahead of me.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
Let us not in the eagerness of our haste to educate forget all the ends of education.
Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places.