Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.

Sometimes, magic is like that. It lands on your head like a piano, a stupid, ancient, unfunny joke, and you spend the rest of your life picking sharps and flats out of your hair.

Magic has a logic, like algebra. Once you get to know it, it's easy. If this, then that. You write with a pencil, you don't make frog soup with it.

Don't worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from?

Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life!

I shall be as brave as a my Toad, he thought, for my Toad never hides under the bed when she is afraid of lightning or bats. She sticks out her tongue and eats them.

all children are required to attend School, which is like a party to which everyone forgot to bring punch, or hats, or fiddles, and none of the games have good prizes.

Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child's room is like being asked inside their heart.

I'm not afraid of you!' The wombat yelled. 'I saw you get stuck in the washing machine once. Round and round you went! Who's afraid of something that can't defeat a rinse cycle?

Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.

Love is a place of rest, a place of comfort and a place of peace and enjoyment.

If beauty is relative, then any and everything when compared to the beauty of God is absolutely hideous.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worthwhile.

As a rule, I try to steer clear of opinions pertaining to your parenting. I assume you're doing the best you can, and God bless.

Everyone is beautiful, everyone is perfect, and everyone is lovely.

My opinion is that more languages you speak, better it is, but but when you come to America, you speak English.

When the critics come around it's always too late.

Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.

If we see an object as a bowl, it may inhibit seeing it as craft, just as seeing it as craft might inhibit seeing it as art. See first; name later.