“Right now, it's hard to imagine that it is raining anywhere in the world.”

“If this ever goes anywhere, it will be because it's right: right time, right intentions, right everything.”

“It's hard to find evil in this world,' said the Witch. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.”

“Reading is being present yesterday and tomorrow, but not right now. Traveling is being present right now, but not right here. Writing is all about reading and traveling, anytime, anywhere.”

“I don't know of any wrong road to Dictionopolis, so if this road goes to Dictionopolis at all it must be the right road, and if it doesn't it must be the right road to somewhere else, because there are no wrong roads to anywhere. Do you think it will rain?”

“In places like this, it's hard to imagine that the world can be so ugly,' Thomas said. 'This is how it was meant to be,' Priya replied. 'The ugliness is our own fault.”