They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.

So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.

I remember when I was a kid in school and teachers would explain things to me about what I read, and I'd think, Where did they get that? I didn't read that in there. Later you look at it and think, That's kind of an interesting idea

I know one thing for certain; it is much harder to tell whether you are lost than whether you were lost, for, on many occasions, where you are going is exactly where you are. On the other hand, if you often find that where you've been is not at all where you should have gone, and, since it's much more difficult to find your way back from someplace you've never left, I suggest you go there immediately and then decide.

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

Things which are equally bad are also equally good. Try to look at the bright side of things. - Humbug

The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.