A true beanie should have a propellor on the top.

Are you a philosopher? Where's your sponge?

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.

I'm fairy godmothering a girl who sounds like something you put up in the rain.

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.

This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic.

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it's gone.