Darrell Spradlyn

“My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.”
― L. Frank Baum, Oz: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

“To be angry once in a while is really good fun, because it makes others so miserable. But to be angry morning, noon and night, as I am, grows monotonous and prevents my gaining any other pleasure in life.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Emerald City of Oz

“Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.”
― L. Frank Baum

“Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it.”
― L. Frank Baum, The Marvelous Land of Oz