… what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.
if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn’t there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That’s why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.
Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.
The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what’s in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.
You had the courage to try and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
You may not see it now,” said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo’s puzzled face, “but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.
Words and numbers are of equal value, for in the cloak of knowledge one is warp and the other woof.
…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.
Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.
And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow’s music and eagerly awaited the dawn.
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
…it’s just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn’t there as it is to live in one where what you don’t see is.
Of course, if you’ve ever gotten a surprise package, you can imagine how puzzled and excited Milo was; and if you’ve never gotten one, pay close attention, because someday you might.
We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.
And that’s why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.
I never knew words could be so confusing,” Milo said to Tock as he bent down to scratch the dog’s ear.”Only when you use a lot to say a little,” answered Tock.Milo thought this was quite the wisest thing he’d heard all day.
…it’s very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it’s there, you just don’t know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.
You weren’t thinking and you weren’t paying attention either. People who don’t pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.
He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.
Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?” asked Milo.”Much worse,” he said longingly. “But I don’t live here. I’m from a place very far away called Context.
…mirages are things that aren’t really there that you can see very clearly.””How do you see something that isn’t there?”…”sometimes it’s much simpler than seeing things that are”…
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
You must never feel badly about making mistakes … as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.
I wouldn’t eat too many of those [half-baked ideas] if I were you. They may look good, but you can get terribly sick of them.”-Tock
Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.
So each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the same thing, aren’t you really in agreement?
I cannot take your sense of humor–and, with it, you’ve nothing to fear from me.
For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.” – Which Macabre
And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.
You must excuse my gruff conduct,” the watchdog said, after they’d been driving for some time, “but you see it’s traditional for watchdogs to be ferocious.
AHA!” interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. “Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
I write best in the morning, and I can only write for about half a day, that’s about it.