The Phantom Tollbooth

The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster and illustrated by Jules Feiffer, is a classic in children's literature. The story is a modern-day fairy tale about a bored boy named Milo who drives through a magic tollbooth and into a new and very different world.

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• It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time.

• Whether or not you find your own way, you're bound to find some way. If you happen to find my way, please return it, as it was lost years ago. I imagine by now it's quite rusty.

• There are no wrong roads to anywhere.

• Well, since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.

• Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

• Why not? That's a good reason for almost anything - a bit used perhaps, but still quite serviceable.

• The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.

• There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.

• If you want sense, you'll have to make it yourself.

• Many of the things which can never be, often are.

• You know that it's there, but you just don't know where - but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.

• Whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else.

• But it's not just learning that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn at all that matters.

• What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.

• So many things are possible just as long as you don't know they're impossible.