Many of the things which can never be, often are.

One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.

You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.

Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his wings, a breeze goes round the world; when a speck of dust falls to the ground, the entire planet weighs a little more; and when you stamp your foot, the earth moves slightly off its course. Whenever you laugh, gladness spreads like the ripples in the pond; and whenever you're sad, no one anywhere can be really happy. And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.