Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort.

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.

Sometimes I find the best way of getting from one place to another is simply to erase everything and begin again.

There are no wrong roads to anywhere.

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

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.