Probably I chose immortality because mortality is a universal human obsession.
Real power is control. Knowing that you can do anything...and not doing it only because you can.
Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.
And so The Snow Queen also became a story about the need to seek equilibrium, in our own lives, with the natural world, even within the universe at large.
All [people] are intolerant.... Only they're intolerant of different things.
The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.