So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.

Adventure! People talked about the idea as if it were something worthwhile, rather than a mess of bad food, no sleep and strange people inexplicably trying to stick pointed objects in bits of you.

This man was so absent-mindedly clever that he could paint pictures that didn’t just follow you around the room but went home with you and did the washing-up.

Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.

This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

What's the orbital velocity of the moon?

Million-to-one chances...crop up nine times out of ten.