To me, intolerance leads down a dreadful path that the world sometimes seems to be going to.

To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things become possible.

The myths and legends about Faerie are many and diverse, and often contradictory. Only one thing is certain - that nothing is certain. All things are possible in the land of Faerie.

Not all meanings are meant to be clear at once. Some ideas take time. Some words are designed to lead us on inner journeys, with truth hidden deep inside them.

My art's not safe, I don't want it to be safe, it's not meant to be safe, its controversial, it takes you into deep areas, it's a journey, its starts off in safe areas but it gets into deep waters.

Once you step onto the fairy path, it's almost like there's no way off. You have to keep going.

I started studying as an artist, but I got fed up with the fact that you can paint terrible pictures and if you explain them in an erudite way it's called great art. I thought this was rubbish.

The sylph is a fragment of the earth's soul in faery form.

Remember, as each man and woman is a microcosm reflecting the larger natural world, so healing of the self is also a healing for the world. As above, so below.

I feel that what you should illustrate is the space between the words. It's the betweenness, the otherness, that gives depth and dimension.

We almost need another word for fairy, that's the thing. Once people get to see what fairies' real power is, then they understand.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

Soul inhabits body that fits.

How beautiful it is to feel that what you cannot describe?

Lord till I reach that blissful shore No privilege so dear shall be As thus my inmost soul to pour In prayer to thee.

Music is there to enrich your life and make you aware of things in a slightly different way.

With opportunity the world is very interesting.

If some nuclear properties of the heavy elements had been a little different from what they turned out to be, it might have been impossible to build a bomb.

I check fashion magazines when I'm published in them to make sure that my work looks good, and then I kind of put it aside.

Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.

I do not trust doctors. They are like golfers. Every one has a different answer to your problems.