The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don't stand a chance against it.

The mers were also designed to reproduce only at long intervals, in order to maintain the natural balance of the environment in which they were placed.

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death.

The futures and ultimate fates of the characters in The Snow Queen are profoundly changed by choices made in their own minds or hearts, as well as choices unexpectedly forced on them by things beyond their control.

For every path you choose, there is another you must abandon, usually forever.

Humans may be the only creatures on Earth who spend significant time thinking about the fact that someday their lives will end.