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
mean trying infinity
...it's very much like your trying to reach infinity. You know that it's there, you just don't know where-but just because you can never reach it doesn't mean that it's not worth looking for.
mean phantom-tollbooth
But just because you can never reach it, doesn’t mean that it’s not worth looking for.
mean long use
We never choose which words to use, for as long as they mean what they mean to mean, we don’t care if they make sense or nonsense.
mean choices
Just because you have a choice, it doesn't mean that any of them 'has' to be right.
mean effort bird
Let me try once more," Milo said in an effort to explain. "In other words--" "You mean you have other words?" cried the bird happily. "Well, by all means, use them. You're certainly not doing very well with the ones you have now.
reason
But as you know, the most important reason for going from one place to another is to see what's in between.
american-architect books writers written
It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean.
ignorance like-you far-away
Is everyone who lives in Ignorance like you?" asked Milo. "Much worse," he said longingly. "But I don't live here. I'm from a place very far away called Context.
way looks phantom-tollbooth
The way you see things depends a great deal on where you look at them from.
infinity phantom-tollbooth poor
Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.
mistake phantom-tollbooth children-book
You must never feel badly about making mistakes,
phantom-tollbooth
Many of the things which can never be, often are.
sweet memories tears
He paused again as a tear of longing rolled from cheek to lip with the sweet-salty taste of an old memory.
eye phantom-tollbooth noticing
There is much worth noticing that often escapes the eye.