“Thats what being alive is, Thing! Its being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing!”

“Yes, but nomes arent hard to make, said Dorcas. You just need other nomes. Youre weird.”

“He stared at his feet. Im still very ignorant, he said, but at least Im ignorant about really important things.”

“She sniffed, and smiled a bit, but not too much because if there is one thing worse than someone who doesn't understand you it's someone who understands perfectly, before you've had a chance to hav...”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“Thinking is the hardest work anyone can do, which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers. ”

“Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.”

“I could not think without writing.”