And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?

Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.

Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--" "You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily. "Well, by all means, use them. You're certainly not doing very well with the ones you have now.

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.