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

I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there are no wrong roads to anywhere. Do you think it will rain?

And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer.

The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.

And when I'm writing, I write a lot anyway. I might write pages and pages of conversation between characters that don't necessarily end up in the book, or in the story I'm working on, because they're simply my way of getting to know the characters

Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.

Expect everything so that nothing comes unexpected.