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.
Norton JusterTo a child, and to an adult, too, what you discover by yourself, or what you think you discover by yourself, is what stays.
Norton JusterAnd that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.
Norton JusterThe Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. โYouโll find,โ he remarked gently, โthat the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and thatโs hardly worth the effort.
Norton JusterAHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
Norton JusterNo one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all.
Norton Juster