“The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.”

“Emperors are vain and useless things.”

“You all say you need us. Well, maybe you do, but not to help, with the millions of bubbly new minds about to be unleashed, with all the cities coming awake at last. Together, you're more than enough to change the world without us. So from now on, David and I are here to stand in your way. You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.”

“Nature didn't need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.”

“In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.”

“We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in...”

“The physical beauty…also cleared her mind of worries. Every day seemed to change the mountain, the sky, and the surrounding valleys, making them spectacular in a completely new way. Nature, at least, didn’t need an operation to be beautiful. It just was.”