“...loving a fairy lady with a magic song will leave you desolate on a cold hillside ... but from there you can see the stars...”
“you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future”
“A guitarist or a drummer can get a cold and still play; I get a cold and sound like a wet mitten trying to sing you a love song. Charming.”
“If you listen very carefully, you can hear the good fairy come in the night and leave our assignment for tomorrow.”
“Not everything has a name. Some things lead us into the realm beyond words ... It is like that small mirror in the fairy tales - you glance in it and what you see is not yourself; for an instant you glimpse the Inaccessible, where no horse or magic carpet can take you. And the soul cries out for it.”
“There must be possible a fiction which,leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the human condition, here and now, with all the bright magic of the fairy tale.”