Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.
Books were safer than other people anyway. (...) I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.
Books are really places, make no mistake about that.
Beg for mercy, said the Elephant. That one was easy. Mercy! said the Marquis. I beg! I plead! Show me mercy—the finest of all gifts. It befits you, mighty Elephant, as lord of your own demesne, to be...
Because, said Thor, when something goes wrong, the first thing I always think is, it is Loki’s fault. It saves a lot of time.
Because, announced Tristran, every lover is in his heart a madman, and in his head a minstrel.
At the best of times his face was unreadable. Now his face was a book written in a language long forgotten, in an alphabet unimagined. Silas wrapped the shadows around him like a blanket, and stared a...
Are you going to do it? Go on. You have to do it. I bet you won’t be any crapper than I was.Fat Charlie shrugged, in a way that, he hoped, indicated that he contained within him depths of crap as yet...
Any way, death is so final, isn't it?Is it? asked Richard.Sometimes, said the marquis de Carabas. And they went down.
Another piece of advice: I've learned over the years that everything is more or less the same amount of work. So you may as well set your sights high and try and do something really cool. There are ot...
And they walked away together through the hole in the wall, back into the darkness,
And then it went, and time passed properly once more, every second following every other second just like they're meant to.
And then he was silent; and from far above they heard the sounds of crows flying, cawing angrily. Crows. Family Corvidae. Collective noun, intoned Mr. Croup, relishing the sound of the word. a murder.
And then he said, Media. I think I have heard of her. Isn’t she the one who killed her children? Different woman, said Mr. Nancy. Same deal.
And once I am there, I shall seek out Watson, if he still lives—and I fancy he does. It is irrational, I acknowledge, and yet I am certain that I would know, somehow, had Watson passed beyond the veil...
And he waited. It was only for a few seconds, but it felt like a small forever.
Along with the standard computer warranty agreement which said that if the machine 1) didn't work, 2) didn't do what the expensive advertisements said, 3) electrocuted the immediate neighborhood, 4) a...
All we really know of the universe is what filters in through our senses, and that isn’t a whole lot. Take the electromagnetic spectrum. It includes virtually every ripple of energy that powers the co...
Albert Einstein was asked once how we could make our children intelligent. His reply was both simple and wise. If you want your children to be intelligent, he said, read them fairy tales. If you want...
Adults should not weep, I knew. They did not have mothers who would comfort them.