Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.

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

If you can see the magic in a fairytale you can face the future.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale you can face the future.

I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.

As a shy kid growing up in Sheffield I fantasized about how it would be great to be famous so I wouldn't actually have to talk to people and feel awkward. And of course as we all know from fairy stories when you achieve that ambition you find out you don't want it.

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

All I know is that I've ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings and now I realize that's not cool anymore.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

I think at a child's birth if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift that gift should be curiosity.