“Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.”

“Sometimes people say terrible things when they're scared. They don't mean to, but they can't help it. They lash out because if they can see that their words hurt someone else, it makes them feel as if they aren't completely powerless.”

“Sometimes we don't need words. Rather, it's words that need us. If we were no longer here, words would lose their whole function. They would end up as words that are never spoken, and words that aren't spoken are no longer words.”

“Things aren't good or bad in and of themselves. It's what we do with them that makes them so.”

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”

“Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.”

“"Teddy, you know what I was thinking? How do you tell what are real things from what aren't real things?"
The bear shuffled its alternatives. "Real things are good."
"I wonder if time is good. I don't think Mummy likes time very much. The other day, lots of days ago, she said that time went by her. Is time real, Teddy?"”

“You don't need to be told some things. You can sometimes tell more by a man's silence and the set of his head than by what he says.”

“Sometimes the things presented to us as choices aren't choices at all.”

“People soon get tired of things that aren't boring, but not of what is boring.”