There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.

It is important to know the stories and histories of things, even if all we know is that we don't know.

Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.

A game one of my sisters will play with me in my first year of being alive is called Good Baby, Bad Baby. This consists of being told I am a good baby until I smile and laugh, then being told I am a bad baby until I burst into tears. This training will stand me in good stead all through my life.

Happy is what you realize you are a fraction of a second before it's too late.

We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

There is a kind of poetry, bad and good, in evrything, everywhere we look.