“Short or long to Goblin City?The straight way's shortBut the long way's pretty...”

“What really alarms me about President Bush's 'War on Terrorism' is the grammar. How do you wage war on an abstract noun? How is 'Terrorism' going to surrender? It's well known, in philological circles, that it's very hard for abstract nouns to surrender.”

“A newt?" "I got better.”

“Ah! The English language was a wonderful thing! You could always find the right word. He only wished he could speak the language.”

“Sarah: That's not fair!Jareth: You say that so often, I wonder what your basis for comparison is?”

“It did not last long. It is only in the movies that knife fighters stab and miss and slash and miss and tussle over several city blocks.”

“It's amazing the way one can take a step ten and a half miles long and still always land in a cowpat.”