This is Art holding a Mirror up to Life. That’s why everything is exactly the wrong way around.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

Humans had built a world inside the world, which reflected it in pretty much the same way as a drop of water reflected the landscape. And yet ... and yet ...

Inside this little world they had taken pains to put all the things you might think they would want to escape from — hatred, fear, tyranny, and so forth. Death was intrigued. They thought they wanted to be taken out of themselves, and every art humans dreamt up took them further in. He was fascinated.

Perhaps it would be simpler if you just did what you're told and didn't try to understand things.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Why are you so scared? Because I just saw the whole of my future life, and it didn't take very long.