Gregory Maguire Quotes

It’s been a long, rocky life, with plenty of possibility but too much human ugliness.

In order to remember who you are, you have to have known it in the first place.

So let my hands and my face make their way in this world, let my hungry eyes see, my tongue taste.

In the end, all disguises must drop.

I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.

We only have babies when we’re young enough not to know how grim life turns out.

To the grim poor there need be no pourquoi tale about where evil arises; it just arises; it always is. One never learns how the witch became wicked, or whether that was the right choice for her--is it ever the right choice? Does the devil ever struggle to be good again, or if so is he not a devil...?

I do not listen when anyone uses the word immoral," said the Wizard. "In the young it is ridiculous, in the old it is sententious and reactionary and an early warning sign of apoplexy. In the middle-aged, who love and fear the idea of moral life the most, it is hypocritical.