Freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

The sky had never seemed so sky; the world had never seemed so world.

Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called.

When I was about ten my favourite article in the huge and mouldering Encyclopedia Britannica we owned (the ninth edition) was the one on Lycanthropy. (Yes, I had a favourite 1890s Britannica article when I was ten. I am now aware this is not entirely usual.)

One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.

All bookshelves are magical.

There's nothing for getting you good fast like having to be good fast, if that makes any sense.