You have many fine qualities that I admire. But you are out of time. You should have been born a century ago, when values such as yours meant something.

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don't make mistakes, you're not trying hard enough.

Ordinary adults don't like children to speak of things that are denied them by their own gray minds.

A surfeit of information often hides an untruth,” he said, with annoying clarity.

That's the thing about destiny: It can't be predicted, and it's usually pretty odd.

Personally I have a great deal of fun doing it, which is an inspiration in itself really. It really allows me to daydream, as in "schooldream" which is daydreaming with ink and get paid for it which is something I don't say to schools when I go in and talk to them.