It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

The world unwraps itself to you, again and again as soon as you are ready to see it anew.

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

The more civilized we become, the more horrendous our entertainments.

That's the real power of art, I think. Not to chide but to provoke challenge. Otherwise why bother?

Just follow that one road the whole time!... I hope they don't get lost, I'm so bad at giving directions.

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.