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

Why, can you imagine what would happen if we named all the twos Henry or George or Robert or John or lots of other things? You'd have to say Robert plus John equals four, and if the four's name were Albert, things would be hopeless.

I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting

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.

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can see it just as well with your eyes closed. That's why imaginary things are often easier to see than real ones.

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