There was much to hate in this world and too much to love.

When I write a book, I write very cleanly from page one to the last page. I hardly ever write out of sequence.

Science, my dears, is the systematic dissection of nature, to reduce it to working parts that more or less obey universal laws. Sorcery moves in the opposite direction. It doesn't rend, it repairs. It is synthesis rather than analysis. It builds anew rather than revealing the old. In the hands of someone truly skilled,...it is Art.

Yet who can say how our souls have been stamped by witnessing such a cruel drama? All souls are hostages to their human envelopes, but souls must decay and suffer at such indignity, don't you agree?

I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.

I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.

And it's a cold place the world, especially when warmed by arsen.