You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.

I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.

Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

A clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.

It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it.

Life outraces memory.

She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice.