“As in any proper fairy tale, there's a majick formula, in this case called the Rule of Nines.”

“It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.”

“There's no such thing as justice in America. It's all a fairy tale.”

“Life has no fairy-tale endings. But it has fairy tale moments.”

“After a childhood reading fairy tales and myths, is it any wonder that when I began to write my own stories I included fairy tales? Fairy tales are storytelling at its most basic. They’ve been with mankind for as long as people have told stories to each other. Fairy tales speak to something intrinsic in humans—they touch our most primitive selves. How else to explain that the Cinderella story is told in nearly every society on earth? To think of fairy tales as merely stories for children is to ignore thousands of years when fairy tales were used to teach morality, to warn, and to entertain both children and adults.”

“Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.”