Dragons were a problem sometimes, but they only came on Tuesdays, so you could work around them.
Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.
The supreme adventure is not falling in love. The supreme adventure is being born ... by the act of being born, we step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws,...
Fairy-tales exist and the best proof for this is our own childhood! Yes, childhood is a real fairy tale!
She'd fall back asleep dreaming of hurricanes whipping the palm trees around her childhood home, trying to run from the Godzilla-sized beast that rushed to devour her. But her feet were stuck in invis...
Fairy tales are not real. However, myths are the historical notes of those who were much wiser than ourselves. We therefore have no right to judge legends; lest we dare challenge demigods and angels.
they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men...
You are mine, and I am thine, and no power on earth shall make it otherwise.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in.
One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he...
I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a...
The merging of characteristics between different species creates a very powerful language, one that I love to explore through my art, enabling me to tap into the unconscious.
There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.
Sometimes I think Earth has got to be the insane asylum of the universe. . . and I'm here by computer error. At sixty-eight, I hope I've gained some wisdom in the past fourteen lustrums and it’s oblig...
She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tal...
Contemporary writers use animal-transformation themes to explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and the process of transformation...just as storytellers have done, all over the world, for...
There is no greater achievement than being a grandfather who tells fairy tales to grandchildren.
A make believe life doesn't win friends and influence people. It bores the crap out of those living the dream.
The thing about fairy tales is that the princess find her prince, but there's usually a price to pay. A compromise is required for happily ever after. The woman in the fair tale is general the one who...
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