Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way. Why, when a housefly flaps his w….

Would it be possible for me to see something from up there?" asked Milo politely. "You could," said Alec, "but only if you try very hard to look at t….

Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking..

Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes..

Many of the things which can never be, often are..

We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense..

But I find the best things I do, I do when I'm trying to avoid doing something else I'm supposed to be doing. You know, you're working on something. ….

They walked for a while, all silent in their thoughts, until they reached the car and Alec drew a fine telescope from his shirt and handed it to Milo….

For instance," said the boy again, "if Christmas trees were people and people were Christmas trees, we'd all be chopped down, put up in the living ro….

AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything..

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

Oh dear, all those words again," thought Milo as he climbed into the wagon with Tock and the cabinet members. "How are you going to make it move? It ….

There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction..

It's bad enough wasting time without killing it..

There are no wrong roads to anywhere..

But I could never have done it," he objected, "without everyone else's help." "That may be true," said Reason gravely,"but you had the courage to try….

A good book written for children can be read by adults.

I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be….

When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he though….

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 cal….