One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her~is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil?

I do love to sing. Had I a longer set of thigh bones and a sweeter voice, I should have loved to be a performer.

No one controls your destiny. Even at the very worst - there is always choice.

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

Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.

Of course. You get everything from books.

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.