We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

...and he kissed her and kissed her and kissed her, little by little by little.

In a sense, Out of Oz is an examination of how individuals keep going, keep reinventing themselves and their lives, even after life-altering complications have afflicted them.

I like to think Im a pretty good-natured guy and pretty civil and probably not ever truly guilty in any serious way of any legal infractions.

It isn’t hard to find evil in this world. Evil is always more easily imagined than good, somehow.

...perhaps charity is the kind of beauty that we comprehend the best because we miss it the most.

Wishing is the beginning of imagination. They practice wishing when they are young things, and then -when they have grown - they have a developed imagination. Which can do some harm - greed, that kind of thing - but more often does them some good. They can imagine that things might be different. Might be other than they seem. Could be better.