“What a dull world if we knew all about geese!”

“There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them.”

“There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.”

“To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.”

“He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.”

“Not all is certainty in our world, Karigan. If it were there'd be no opportunity for faith; and then it would be a very dull existence.”

“I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.”

“I looked about for some of my acquaintance, but in vain, for I saw not one person that I knew, which is very odd, for all the world seemed there.”

“In our modern world we have seen inaugurated the reign of a dull bourgeois rationalism, which finds some inadequate reason for all things in heaven and earth and makes a god of its own infallibility.”

“The Lost Music was his way of talking about the way he believed that old wives' tales and dance tunes and folktales were just the tangled echoes of something that's not quite of this world … something we all knew once, but have forgotten since.”