[Puggles] "What population signs on willingly for slavery?" "You mean other than wives?" [Glinda]
Gregory MaguireHow poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.
Gregory MaguireIn 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.
Gregory MaguireThe further on we go, the more meaning there is, but the less articulable. You live your life and the older you get- the more specifically you harvest- the more precious becomes every ounce and spasm. Your life and times donโt drain of meaning because they become more contradictory, ornamented by paradox, inexplicable. The less explicable, the more meaning. The less like a mathematics equation (a sum game); the more like music (significant secret).
Gregory Maguire