Norton Juster
Norton Juster
Norton Justeris an American academic, architect, and popular writer. He is best known as an author of children's books, notably for The Phantom Tollbooth and The Dot and the Line...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionChildren's Author
Date of Birth2 June 1929
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
reason
But as you know, the most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between.
octopus phantom-tollbooth heard
Have you ever heard a blindfolded octopus unwrap a cellophane-covered bathtub?
cities attention lasts
No one paid any attention to how things looked, and as they moved faster and faster everything grew uglier and dirtier, and as everything grew uglier and dirtier they moved faster and faster, and at last a very strange thing began to happen. Because nobody cared, the city slowly began to disappear. Day by day the buildings grew fainter and fainter, and the streets faded away, until at last it was entirely invisible. There was nothing to see at all.
smell gone phantom-tollbooth
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.
tongue sound caught
Where is the sound?" someone hastily scribbled on the blackboard, and they all waited anxiously for the reply. Milo caught his breath, picked up the chalk, and explained simply, "It's on the tip of my tongue.
princess purpose may
You may not see it now," said the Princess of Pure Reason, looking knowingly at Milo's puzzled face, "but whatever we learn has a purpose and whatever we do affects everything and everyone else, if even in the tiniest way.
buns care dukes
Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.
infinity phantom-tollbooth poor
Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
wasting-time phantom-tollbooth killing
It's bad enough wasting time without killing it.
sensitive knows
Everybody is so terribly sensitive about the things they know best.
facts pieces information
When you're very young and you learn something - a fact, a piece of information, whatever - it doesn't connect to anything.
valleys residents
They all looked very much like the residents of any small valley to which you've never been.
holiday care doing-nothing
You see. . . it's really quite strenuous doing nothing all day, so once a week we take a holiday and go nowhere, which was just where we were going when you came along. Would you care to join us?
wrong-road
There are no wrong roads to anywhere.