Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of tellers.

I love the idea of the vignette, which is associated with the decorative, illustrative, small, and thus with the feminine, and thus easily maligned. I mean, Emily Dickinson wrote vignettes, right?

When humans become gods, when our wings grow so great as to beat about the very edges of the earth, no one can answer but us.

From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no reality.

People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.

Beer bottles, whiskey bottles, brown glass, green. They fell to the lawn and I'd feel serene. Adam was king to my stilted queen.

Fairy tales are the skeletons of story, perhaps. Reading them often provides an uneasy sensation—a gnawing familiarity—that comforting yet supernatural awareness of living inside a story.

If the spirit of your imagination is limited, your journey of discovery will be very short.

Unless and until something concrete is done about addressing the Israeli-Palestinian issue you won't get a real start on the war against terrorism.

If you can't find good in your own country, you won't find it anywhere else.

Death is always a constant possibility and probability and of course an inevitability, as well.

A film is a boat which is always on the point of sinking-it always tends to break up as you go along and drag you under with it.

I beseech you to open your hearts and give back! Give your time/services/money/support/encouragement/love! Give whatever you can!

Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for him, as you can see in my early drawings.

When I was young I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything I used to think 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?'

That which God plants he will take care to keep watered.

We need to ascend beyond our own petty Resistance, our own negative self-judgment and self-sabotage, our own "I'm not worthy" mind-set.