In times like these, it helps to recall there have always been times like these

An eye for an eye will make the whole world go blind.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Hold on to your divine blush, your innate rosy magic, or end up brown. Once you're brown, you'll find out you're blue. As blue as indigo. And you know what that means. Indigo. Indigoing. Indigone.

Using words to describe magic is like using a screwdriver to cut roast beef.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

This may be said for the last quarter of the twentieth century: the truism that if we want a better world we will have to be better people came to be acknowledged, if not thoroughly understood, by a significantly large minority.