“A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.”
“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
“I was pretending to be a monster, and I became a monster.”
“A monster that refused, sometimes, to behave like a monster. When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
“When a monster stopped behaving like a monster, did it stop being a monster? Did it become something else?”
“While it is always possible to wake a person who's sleeping, no amount of noise will wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.”