It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.

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

You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?

...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.

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.

But I suppose there's a lot to see everywhere, if only you keep your eyes open.

Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.