Quotes from Bill Willingham

I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?

Freedom is sloppy. But since tyranny's the only guaranteed byproduct of those who insist on a perfect world, freedom will have to do.

Hope isn't destiny. Left passive its nothing more than disappointment deferred

It is my fondest desire to bust a host of caps into multitudes of fleshy personages.

Baba Yaga: "... What are his powers" Mirror on the wall: "He reads

I love you, Snow, and have since the hour we first met. Hell, I wanted you even before then. Since before we existed. As if every movement of every star and planet, every tick of creation's clock occurred only so that we could someday find each other.

Murderers don't get forgiven just because we promise to be good from now on. We have to earn our way back. One hundred is the price. One hundred lives for each we took. That seems fair. That's how we get whole again and that's our work, from now until as long as it takes.

But sometimes a giant heart can live in a tiny body.

Those who can really do what they promise don't first pause to promise what they can do.

Reluctantly he realized some forces could not be conquered and some vengeances can never be sated.

If they've managed to bring more firepower than us, we deserve to lose. But we aren't going to lose, because we're the Page sisters and we're librarians.

Writers never really like each other anyway. Our insecurities get in the way.

Baba Yaga: I've never heard of such a creature. What are his powers? Magic Mirror: He reads. He reads everything.

Perhaps only that revenge is ultimately unsatisfying. It cant make up for the evil done to you, but it can destroy the remaining good in your life.

Only silly Dorothys arrive in a magical land and want to go home. You don't want to be a silly stinking Dorothy, do you? They're reviled throughout every wondrous land. Did you know the name Dorothy translates as "squandered opportunity"?

We tell stories to live, to love, to prosper and to fail.

Every road and every step along it begins with a story.

We live through the belief of children...Regicide is suicide , citizens. Inscribe that in your hearts. The Great Pretend is a fragile construct.

Oh, don't mind Humpty. He's inhaled a hell of a lot of super-glue.

Hope without direction can all too easily turn into despair.

Isn't there a statute of limitation on playing the poor abused victim?

What can I say your honor? Life is neither fair nor easy.

Yes, and our kid brother Superhero has died so many times that the readers barely even notice anymore.

I'm here because all fairy tales take place in the woods, King Cole, even those that don't.