If a secret history of books could be written and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story how many insipid volumes would become interesting and dull tales excite the reader!

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.

I think dreams can come true but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false?

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales so is the other.

Vulgar and obscene the papers run rumors daily about people in show business tales of wicked ways and witless affairs.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me telling me their tales.

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.