The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text.

I wanted to avoid what some modern tellers have done, quite legitimately, to make fairy tales more like novels and short stories, to characterize the heroes and the heroines much more than they are characterized in Grimm. I like the psychological flatness of them, the fact that they're more like masks than individuals.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the bitter Arctic cold and the immense silence of the North.

But we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will.

Thou Shalt Not is soon forgotten, but Once Upon a Time is forever.

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