If want to go back to my childhood. I want to return to the semi-innocence of my youth. I want to believe that for every evil deed that occurs in the world, there’s a good deed that eclipses it. I want to believe in mystery and magic again. I want to believe in beauty and God and heroes and humanity again.

Damn the new millenium and adulthood. Damn them both for poisoning my optimistic universe. Damn the new atheists. Damn the religious fundamentalists. Damn everything that kills the fire of love and belief.