Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.
Children, they're the same everywhere. Greedy little creatures but the best listeners in the world - any world. The very best of all.
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
You know a great many things in dreams, often despite the evidence of your eyes. You just know them.
Stories never really end. . . even if the books like to pretend they do. Stories always go on. They don't end on the last page, any more than they begin on the first page.
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?" Mo had said. . . "As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells. . . and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower. . . both strange and familiar.
Fire and water," he said, "don't really mix. You could say they're incompatible. But when they do love each other, they love passionately.
I sometimes find reality far more fantastical and unlikely than what I could just make up.
The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known.
If you want to think about cooking, and it's a high-five, laid back motion, then flip burgers and dress Caesar salad, don't try to pitch in the premier league of restaurant. Build up to it, by all means.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.