I hate being good.
-Mary Poppins

I think the idea of 'Mary Poppins' has been blowing in and out of me, like a curtain at a window, all my life.

I think that 'Mary Poppins' needs a subtle reader, in many respects, to grasp all its implications, and I understand that these cannot be translated in terms of the film.

Nothing I had written before 'Mary Poppins' had anything to do with children, and I have always assumed, when I thought about it at all, that she had come out of the same wall of nothingness as the poetry, myth and legend that had absorbed me all my writing life.

My family didn't like me going on the stage, and they didn't much like my being a writer, either.

I'm not Mary Poppins, but I think I functioned with integrity.