Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would.

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

You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.

For a long time I thought I was a poet, but that's a high title to claim.

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times.

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.

Once upon a time' lasts forever.