All [people] are intolerant.... Only they're intolerant of different things.
Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
Humans are upsetting a fragile balance that their own human ancestors established.
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts.
Myth is, after all, the neverending story.
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.