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

...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.

The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.

To a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth