If you want to make a name for yourself, the oldest trick in the book is to attack what everybody else reveres.

This did not annoy Amanda for it had long been her theory that human beings were invented by water as a device for transporting itself from one place to another.

A child's mind is its living room; it's is going to be residing there for the rest of its earthly existence.

Dreams don't come true. Dreams are true.

Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination itself, is to be exposed without preparation to the life outside his or her own sphere - the sudden revelation that there is a there out there.

The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.

There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.