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Fairytales work on two levels. On a conscious level, they are stories of true love and triumph and overcoming difficult odds and so are pleasurable to read. But they work on a deeper and symbolic level in that they play out our universal psychological dramas and hidden desires and fears.

Fairy tales are stories of triumph and transformation and true love, all things I fervently believe in.

What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big, epic things that you can't really explore in other situations.

The thing is, fairytales were once a very gritty way for people to dialogue about aspects of life.

I can't work out much about myself or what I see in the world around me unless I do it through writing.

Fairy-tales are nice.

Ultimately, it's an illusion that you can understand yourself.

I don't feel there's a difference between the real world and the fairy-tale world. They contain psychological truths and, I guess, projections of what the culture that tells them thinks about various things: men, women, aging, dying - the most basic aspects of being human.

You get to be wiser by storying the world and seeing it through other forms of consciousness than your own.