Groucho Marx Quotes

The first time I went to Wales I thought I'd landed in a land of hobbits. Everybody was really small and the houses were small and the writing was backwards.

I had always been interested in mythology. I suppose my brief stay in Wales during World War II influenced my writing, too. It was an amazing country. It has marvelous castles and scenery.

I was raised Catholic, but the devil was never with a pitchfork.

Sometimes my influences are really on my sleeve. So I just make sure to wear a lot of sleeves.

Do you know what they say about big hands? Big gloves!

Storytelling is really at the root of everything that I do.

We moved to America when I was young, but we were always very Welsh in our home. The humor, food, traditions. Very Welsh.

I appreciate hearing different stories. It inspires me.

For thousands of years, humans have used the art of storytelling to motivate and persuade.

Wales was a great pleasure. It's the biggest honor I've ever had, to lead my country.

I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.

I met my wife on a ferry boat, and when we landed she gave me the slip

Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts of myths. Myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is.

Mario, what do you get when you cross an insomniac, an unwilling agnostic and a dyslexic?

[Some people think] that storytelling is telling jokes. So they have to be discouraged! Then others think that storytelling-is like an encounter group . . .

What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG!

I look at all of world mythology and folklore as my toy to play with. There are just so many characters and creatures there I want to put on paper. It's a really exciting thing for me to take material that I really love and put a new coat of paint on it and present it to this audience. And I don't have to make up any of the characters. I can just pull a book of mythology off the shelf and say, "I'll use this guy." I also hate making up names for fantasy characters. I'll just flip through these books and say, "Wow, this is way crazier than anything I could make up".

The Welsh... I mean, what are they for?

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children.

When I was your age — about, ooh, a thousand years ago — I loved a good bedtime story. The Three Little Sontarans. The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes. Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday, eh? All the classics.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

I tried to think of a witty play on Every picture tells a thousand words, but then the whole word/picture thing collapsed on me.

There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle.

Storytelling wasn't about making things up. It was more like inviting the stories to come through her, let themselves be told.

Pete and Repeat are in a boat, Pete jumps out who's left in the boat?