“The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous”
“No days, perhaps, of all our childhood are ever so fully lived are those that we had regarded as not being lived at all: days spent wholly with a favourite book.”
“Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true”
“You must not forget that a monster is only a variation, and that to a monster the norm is monstrous.”
“The monstrous act by definition demands a monster.”
“Monsters were wild. Monsters were strong. Monsters were fierce and free.If I was monstrous...perhaps it wasn't such a bad thing.”