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I've always wondered if, at some point, everything will snap, and it'll be like 'Alice in Wonderland,' where the delightfully mad people turn into sinister mad people.

I think understanding your life as a story is a really terrific way of kind of knowing where you are and knowing who you are.

I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.

When I was young I read 'L'Etranger' by Camus, and it made me aware of the strangeness of life.

As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.

'Alice in Wonderland' has been done a million times; why do it again? Nerve's answer is that Alice is Everyman and Everywoman, going through the stages of life.

I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

Believe it or not, my introduction to scary literature was 'Pinocchio.' My mother read it to me every day before naptime when I was three or four. The original 'Pinocchio' is terrifying.