“Books”—Snell smiled—“are a kind of magic.” — Jasper Fforde

Failure concentrates the mind wonderfully. If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not trying hard enough.

Tyrants are all the same—shocking temper when they don’t get their own way!

Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransference technology that translates odd, inky squiggles into pictures inside your head.