Almost every single commercial on television for shampoo, sports shoes, drinks, food, clothes, perfume, cars, etc., is a short fairy tale, for they are given magical qualities.

Alas for those girls who've refused the truth: The sweetest tongue has the sharpest tooth.

It was not once upon a time, but a certain time in history, before anyone knew what was happening, that Walt Disney cast a spell on the fairy tale, and he has held it captive ever since.

The role of the storyteller is to awaken the storyteller in others.

A long time ago I learned that an atheist and a believer trying to have a discussion about God and religion is like shooting the breeze and having it shoot back.

Human folk are as a matter of fact eager to find intelligence in animals.

Revenge is a common passion; it is the sin of the uninstructed.

Even if I could not earn a penny from my writing, I would earn my livelihood at something else and continue to write at night.

When I go in to the recording studio, I already know almost exactly what I am going to do, but when I go to set, it is really a wildcard. I have no idea what is going to happen.

Writing is a job: you must show up.

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

False notes can be forgiven, false music cannot.

Having been given that public trust, we have a responsibility to share with the public.

Love endures when the lovers love many things together And not merely each other.