Life again refused to remain lifesized - Salman Rushdie

But human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capable only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase. Meaning is a shaky edifice we build out of scraps, dogmas, childhood injuries, newspaper articles, chance remarks, old films, small victories, people hated, people loved; perhaps it is because our sense of what is the case is constructed from such inadequate materials that we defend it so fiercely, even to the death.

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.