Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

Who'd want a pony when you could have the whole universe? It was far more interesting and you didn't have to muck it out once a week.

Evolution was far more thrilling to me than the biblical account. Who would not rather be a rising ape than a falling angel? To my juvenile eyes, Darwin was proved true every day. It doesn't take much to make us flip back into monkeys again.

It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.

The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.

Zoology, eh? That's a big word, isn't it." "No, actually it isn't," said Tiffany. "Patronizing is a big word. Zoology is really quite short.

If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.