Before we left, Grandmother talked a lot about the arctic night we would fly through. 'Isn't it a mystical word, "arctic"? Pure and quite hard. And meridians. Isn't that pretty? We're going to fly along them, faster than the light can follow us... Time won't be able to catch us.

A theatre is the most important sort of house in the world, because that's where people are shown what they could be if they wanted, and what they'd like to be if they dared to and what they really are

One makes a trip by day, but by night one sets out on a journey.

He didn't remember, he didn't worry, he just was.

There's no need to imagine that you're a wondrous beauty, because that's what you are.

Dogs are mute and obedient, but they have watched us and know us and can smell how pitiful we are.

It looks rather ordinary," said the Snork. "Unless you consider that a top hat is always somewhat extraordinary, of course.