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One writes fables in periods of oppression.

I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

We know the past and its great events, the present in its multitudinous complications, chiefly through faith in the testimony of others.

Faith, sir, we are here today, and gone tomorrow.

Myths are part of our DNA. We're a civilisation with a continuous culture. The effort to modernize it keeps it alive. Readers connect with it.

From this, without doubt, sprang the fable. Man created it thus, because it was not given him to see more than himself and nature, which surrounds him; but he created it true with a truth all its own.

Folk tales and myths, they've lasted for a reason. We tell them over and over because we keep finding truths in them, and we keep finding life in them.