Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

Oh dear, all those words again," thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. "How are you going to make it move? It doesn't have a--" "Be very quiet," advised the duke, "for it goes without saying.

They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo. "Carry this with you on your journey," he said softly, "for there is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye. Through it you can see everything from the tender moss in a sidewalk crack to the glow of the farthest star — and, most important of all, you can see things as they really are, not just as they seem to be. It's my gift to you.

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.

They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.