“Stairs are only leading up So I smile!”

“Halfway down the stairs, is a stair, where I sit. There isn't any, other stair, quite like, it. I'm not at the bottom, I'm not at the top; So this is the stair, where, I always, stop. Halfway up the stairs, isn't up, and isn't down. It isn't in the nursery, it isn't in the town. And all sorts of funny thoughts, run round my head: It isn't really anywhere! It's somewhere else instead!”

“Stairs, are they going up or are they going down? They’re so confusing! If love were a physical thing, it would be stairs.”

“Up the stairs I found an imposing headquarters, decorated with the portraits and busts of solemn, whiskered old darlings who, no doubt, bled their customers with leeches and passed on the information to alarmed small boys that self-abuse leads to blindness.”

“I came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.”

“Those who lead from the top of the pyramid end up leading only those on top ...”