I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.

It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting.

There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP!

When you live for many hundreds of years, you know that every opportunity will come again.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text.

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.