People always ask about my influences, and they cite a bunch of people I've never heard of

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try; and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

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

Freedom is not a license for chaos.

There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.

Does everyone grow the way you do?" puffed Milo when he had caught up. "Almost everyone," replied Alec, and then he stopped a moment and thought. "Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up towards the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that." "What happens to them?" insisted Milo. "Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else," said Alec thoughtfully, "and I've heard that they walk among the stars." And with that he skipped off once again toward the waiting woods.