Michael Ondaatje Quotes

The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs, speaking animals.

In the Land of Ire, the belief in fairies, gnomes, ogres and monsters is all but dead; in the Land of Ind, it still flourishes in all the vigour of animism.

Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy.

When I wrote 'The Good Fairies of New York,' I wasn't really imagining that there were fairies. Not in the way that I'm really imagining there are werewolves.

Everybody loves monsters.

I believe in elves and giants. I believe that fairy tales are nothing more than news reports of what once happened.

Leslie had learned two valuable things about the fae that day. They were powerful and charming -- and they ate children and puppies.

Just because you saw a vampire doesn't mean that a snowman or a Loch Ness Monster also exists.

I was always fascinated by fairy stories, fantasy, you know, demons, necromancers, gods and goddesses, everything that is out of our kin and out of our everyday world. I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am.

Vampires are make-believe, like elves, gremlins, and eskimos.

Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron.

I don't believe in faeries!

I suppose I could understand it if men had simply forgotten unicorns, but not to see them at all, to look at them and see something else — what do they look to one another, then? What do trees look like to them, or houses, or real horses, or their own children?

Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

We're travelling through space and time, we're dealing with gods and monsters, but at the heart of the film, from my perspective, is a family - a father, two sons, two brothers, a mother and the fractious, intimate interaction that they have.

We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.

Angels are totally real. Tinkerbell has a hot ass. Wendigos exist. It's all true. Satan is blonde. True fact.

What distracts me from my reality is bigfoot. They are my celebrities.

What do men know? Because they have seen no unicorns for a while does not mean we have all vanished.

You can live in the world of myth and be taken seriously.

Before the gods that made the gods Had seen their sunrise pass, The White Horse of the White Horse Vale Was cut out of the grass.

To have dragons one must have change; that is the first principle of dragon lore.

When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but if there were and so tomorrow we woke up to find no more believers on earth, no more devout Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, why then, sure the beauty of the stories would be a thing we could focus on because they wouldn't be dangerous any more, they would become capable of compelling the only belief that leads to truth, that is, the willing, disbelieving of the reader in a well-told tale.

Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.

It would have been nice to have had unicorns.