Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it up like a brushfire. It's the crack cocaine of the literary world.

Mr. McGregor's a nasty piece of work, isn't he? Quite the Darth Vader of children's literature.

Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.

Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corrpution and error hardwired at inception.

Yes, and imagine a world where there were no hypothetical situations.

Do you really think you'd win a PR war against a bunch of committed librarians?' He thought about this, but he knew I was right. The libraries were a treasured institution and so central to everyday life that government and commerce rarely did anything that might upset them.Some say they were more powerful than the military, or, if not, they were certainly quieter. As they say: Don't mess with librarians. Only they use a stronger word than 'mess'.

For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert.