Norton Juster Quotations

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 called Context.

The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.

Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

You must never feel badly about making mistakes,

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

He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.

There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.

Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

Does everyone grow the way you do?" puffed Milo when he had caught up. "Almost everyone," replied Alec, and then he stopped a moment and thought. "Now and then, though, someone does begin to grow differently. Instead of down, his feet grow up towards the sky. But we do our best to discourage awkward things like that." "What happens to them?" insisted Milo. "Oddly enough, they often grow ten times the size of everyone else," said Alec thoughtfully, "and I've heard that they walk among the stars." And with that he skipped off once again toward the waiting woods.

Perhaps someday you can have one city as easy to see as Illusions and as hard to forget as Reality.