Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.

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

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

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

Time is a gift, given to you, given to give you the time you need, the time you need to have the time of your life.

A good book written for children can be read by adults

You must never feel badly about making mistakes.