I...I went over to Orson's to ask him to get you off my back, and the poor sap, he...he'd written the whole sordid tale down and left it right there on the table.
The charlatan scoffed. “Your magic is more than equal to that fool's imagination, ” he assured her, and he retired to the castle, well pleased with his own cleverness.
" Any intelligent fool can make things bigger more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction" .