What you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.

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.

The most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between, and they took great pleasure in doing just that.

...it's just as bad to live in a place where what you do see isn't there as it is to live in one where what you don't see is.

I am the Terrible Trivium, demon of petty tasks and worthless jobs, ogre of wasted effort, and monster of habit.

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

Do you think it will rain? Milo: But I thought you were the Weather Man? No, I'm the Whether man, for it is more important to know whether there will be weather, whether than what the weather will be.