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.

I hate being good.
-Mary Poppins

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

'Mary Poppins' was one of the best experiences of my life.

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.