213 Quotes by Norton Juster

As you can see, that leaves almost no time for brooding, lagging, plodding, or procrastinating, and if we stopped to think or laugh, we’d never get nothing done.” “You mean you’d never get anything done,” corrected Milo. “We don’t want to get anything done,” snapped another angrily; “we want to get nothing done, and we can do that without your help.

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. You get bugged, or you lose your enthusiasm or something. So you turn to something else with an absolute vengeance.

The only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that’s hardly worth the effort.

The more you want, the less you get, and the less you get, the more you have.

Why is it,′ he said quietly, ’that quite often even the things which are correct just don’t seem to be right?

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you’re going.

For always remember that while it is wrong to use too few, it is often far worse to use too many.” – Which Macabre.

I received a grant from The Ford Foundation to write a book for kids about urban perception, or how people experience cities, but I kept putting off writing it. Instead I started to write what became The Phantom Tollbooth.

They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you’ve never been.