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

One writes fables in periods of oppression.

The moral of a fable is eternal. The moral of a story is temporary to a story.

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.

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

From the very beginning, history wasn't content simply to be nostalgic fairytales; it wanted to make you think.

I'm fascinated with the stories that we tell. Real histories become fantasies and fairy tales, morality tales and fables. There's something interesting and funny and perverse about the way fairytale sometimes passes for history, for truth.

How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we tell as fables.

Combine two words, Myth and History. What do you get? Mystery.

I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.