“The bank - the monster has to have profits all the time. It can't wait. It'll die. No, taxes go on. When the monster stops growing, it dies. It can't stay one size.”

“A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.”

“The monster nevers dies.”

“You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.”

“Socialism is a monster that will die.”

“But as soon as any of us dies, there is only the monster left. What I had been pursuing was not Belham but the monster called Belham. And what my whole journey had taught me was precisely what sort of monster it was: it was made, as all such monsters are, of contradiction, supposition, miscalculation, impossibility, and ignorance.”

“Obstacles can't stop you. Problems can't stop you. Most of all others can't stop you. The only one who stops you is yourself.”

“But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.”

“If I can't stay where I am, and I can't, then I will put all that I can into the going.”

“Monsters cannot be announced. One cannot say: 'here are our monsters', without immediately turning the monsters into pets.”