Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.

Without unscrambled eggs, there was no time travel, no more depredation of the Now, and we could look to a brighter future of long-term thought--and more reading.

I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.

Prejudice is a product of ignorance that hides behind barriers of tradition.

We all make mistakes at some time in our lives, some more than others. It is only when the cost is counted in human lives that people really take notice.

I wished I could share my own optimism.

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.