But why do only unimportant things?" asked Milo, who suddenly remembered how much time he spent each day doing them. "Think of all the trouble it saves," the man explained, and his face looked as if he'd be grinning an evil grin--if he could grin at all. "If you only do the easy and useless jobs, you'll never have to worry about the important ones which are so difficult. You just won't have the time. For there's always something to do to keep you from what you really should be doing, and if it weren't for that dreadful magic staff, you'd never know how much time you were wasting.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

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

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.

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

The Mathemagician nodded knowingly and stroked his chin several times. “You’ll find,” he remarked gently, “that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.

And that's why people no longer care which words they use as long as they use lots of them.