“he looked like something more than human, or something less.”
“If you're looking for something more in life, you're likely to find it in something less.”
“He was more like something out of Dickens than anything human.”
“It is blasphemy to separate oneself from the earth and look down on it like a god. It is more than blasphemy; it is dangerous. We can never be gods, after all - but we can become something less than human with frightening ease.”
“Evil is not something superhuman, it's something less than human.”
“Elphaba looked like something between an animal and an Animal, like something more than life but not quite Life.”