“TO CHANGE THE FATE OF ONE INDIVIDUAL IS TO CHANGE THE WORLD.”

“If you kept changing the way people saw the world, you ended up changing the way you saw yourself.”

“People don't like change. But make the change fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.”

“The moments that change your life are the ones that happen suddenly, like the one where you die.”

“Why are you always in such a hurry, Mr. Lipwig?”“Because people don’t like change. But make the change happen fast enough and you go from one type of normal to another.”

“All things are defined by names. Change the name, and you change the thing.”

“The theater troubled her. It had a magic of its own, one that didn’t belong to her, one that wasn’t in her control. It changed the world, and said things were otherwise than they were. And it was worse than that. It was magic that didn’t belong to magical people. It was commanded by ordinary people, who didn’t know the rules. They altered the world because it sounded better.”