Paul Jenkins Quotes

There was evidence of neither angels nor ambulance workers, which Wil took to be a positive sign.

His museum took a stance against conventional thinking, and the slow death of intellect that comes with mediocrity.

Your eyes only see what your mind lets you believe!

Wil had always suspected Mrs. Chappell’s cats were onto something: if one can act as if everything is right with the world while all around clowns dressed in snorkels, flippers, and tutus are throwing bowls of neon-green custard at each other then, by golly, everything is right with the world.

Outside, the city streets were gray and sodden. Indeed, Wil often fancied this was the city where they had invented the color gray.

Hindsight would later suggest to Wil that things coincidentally began to fall down at exactly the same time he began to relax. He wasn’t to know this at the time, of course. Otherwise it would’ve been foresight.

He began to think of better days, all of which lay in the opposite direction from the one he was facing.

Wil opened his eyes to find Thursday glaring in at him through his window; apparently, the universe was already in a foul mood.

Wil had learned as a child that the best way to deal with goons—the more muscle-bound the better—was to confuse them. For while the human bicep was something anyone with a little patience could build up to an impressive size, the human brain was less a variable and more something a person was born with. Goons, in his experience, were rarely born with very large ones.

Ignoring the old man, Wil reasoned, was the first step to figuring him out.

The Quantum Needle was theoretically used to repair any tears in the fabric of the space-time continuum, though how it actually worked in the field was a matter of some debate. When Wil had pressed the question, Mr. Dinsdale had simply mumbled, “quantum physics,” which seemed to be his standard response to any question he didn’t know the answer to.

But even a man who has paid his rent doesn’t have forever.

Life is not about how you use your eyes; it’s about having vision.

Wil Morgan awoke from his regular anxiety dream, in which he had just finished second in a World’s Biggest Failure competition.

I think you're missing the point."
"I think I'm not alone in that.