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

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?

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.

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

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?

Handshakes, Hugs & Other Touching. Learning how to touch appropriately can elevate your presentation, demonstrate respect, and convey confidence.

It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

Writing a book is like loving someone. It can be very painful.

When a person feels encouraged, he can face the impossible and overcome incredible adversity.

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

It's overwhelmingly likely that life exists on other planets.

Unless you got real short and real fat, you ain't no Booker T!

Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.

When you know what's most important to you, making a decision is quite simple.