Tell the innocent visitor from another world that two people were killed at Serajevo, and that the best that Europe could do about it was to kill eleven million more.

Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.

I did know once, only I've sort of forgotten.

Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.

If possible, try to find a way to come downstairs that doesn't involve going bump, bump, bump, on the back of your head.

Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.

We can’t all and some of us don’t. That’s all there is to it.