“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”

“Everyone's life is a fairy tale written by God's fingers.”

“Every man's life is a fairy tale, written by God's fingers.”

“Everything you look at can become a fairy tale and you can get a story from everything you touch.”

“Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. The swallow sang "Tweet, tweet," and from his song came the whole story.”

“Yes, it is wonderful to be alive! Indeed, the Bottle inwardly sang of all this, as do young poets, who frequently also know nothing about the things of which they sing." From The Bottle Neck”

“Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.”