You would run much slower if you were dragging something behind you, like a knapsack or a sheriff.

Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a whole series of books.

Off with you" is a phrase used by people who lack the curtesy to say something more polite, such as, "if there's nothing else you require I must be going" or "I'm sorry but I'm going to have to ask you to leave, please" or even "excuse me but I believe you have mistaken my home for your own and my valuable belongings for yours and I must ask you to return the items in question to me and leave my home after untying me from this chair, as I'm unable to do it myself, if it's not too much trouble.

Every problem has a solution. Sometimes it just takes a long time to find the solution - even if it's right in front of your nose.

Morning is an important time of day, because how you spend your morning can often tell you what kind of day you are going to have.

It seemed to me that every adult did something terrible sooner or later. And every child, I thought, sooner or later becomes an adult.

I don't know why wicked places generally look wicked. You'd think they'd look nice, to fool people, but they hardly ever do.