AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.

Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.

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

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

And remember, also," added the Princess of Sweet Rhyme, "that many places you would like to see are just off the map and many things you want to know are just out of sight or a little beyond your reach. But someday you'll reach them all, for what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.

And some looked even more like each other than they did like themselves.