Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.

Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist's only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.

Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.

My heart belongs to you,' He promised. 'Would you have loved me when I was a girl?' 'I have always loved you. Even before I met you I loved the idea of you.

Many truths which are not believed are called lies,' the Laughing Beast said. 'Mirrors do not themselves lie unless they have been enchanted. Ordinary mirrors merely reflect what is revealed to them. People lie and mirrors reflect people. If your mother feared mirrors in your land, she feared herself.

‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

Oh yes. It's open all right, but not many people come in here to look at me now so there's no point in selling tickets. No one is interested in a man who professes to be a monster. They'll give me notice very soon. I started out being a great attraction, but people soon understood that what fascinated them about me was no more than the reflection of their own deformities. All I do is how them what is inside themselves,' He added mournfully.