I doubt I would have written a line ... unless some minor tragedy had sort of twisted my mind out of the normal rut.

Well not exactly," the father said."Nobody could do that. but it didn't take me long.

If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

The snozberries taste like snozberries!

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

There is no place I know that compares to pure imagination.

Do you like vegetables?" Sophie asked, hoping to steer the conversation towards a slightly less dangerous kind of food. "You is trying to change the subject," the Giant said sternly. "We is having an interesting babblement about the taste of the human bean. The human bean is not a vegetable.