Norton Juster Quotes

You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?

They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.

There are no wrong roads to anywhere.

You see, to tall men I'm a midget, and to short men I'm a giant; to the skinny ones I'm a fat man, and to the fat ones I'm a thin man.

We're right here on this very spot. Besides, being lost is never a matter of not knowing where you are; it's a matter of not knowing where you aren't - and I don't care at all about where I'm not.

I think really good books can be read by anybody.

One of the problems you have when you read with kids is that once they like something they want you to read it a hundred times.

Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.

Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.

When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.

Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.

I wouldn't eat too many of those [half-baked ideas] if I were you. They may look good, but you can get terribly sick of them."-Tock

You had the courage to try and what you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo."Much worse, " he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.

Words and numbers are of equal value, for in the cloak of knowledge one is warp and the other woof.

Rhyme and reason answer all problems

...mirages are things that aren't really there that you can see very clearly.""How do you see something that isn't there?"..."sometimes it's much simpler than seeing things that are"...

So each one of you agrees to disagree with whatever the other one agrees with, but if you both disagree with the same thing, aren't you really in agreement?

I cannot take your sense of humor--and, with it, you've nothing to fear from me.

For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many." - Which Macabre

You must excuse my gruff conduct, ” the watchdog said, after they’d been driving for some time, “but you see it’s traditional for watchdogs to be ferocious.

You weren't thinking and you weren't paying attention either. People who don't pay attention often get stuck in the Doldrums.

And Milo, full of thoughts and questions, curled up on the pages of tomorrow's music and eagerly awaited the dawn.

…it’s not just learning that’s important. It’s learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things that matters.

... what you learn today, for no reason at all, will help you discover all the wonderful secrets of tomorrow.