“As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collu...” — Kate Bernheimer Quote

“As I read more and more fairy tales as an adult, I found massive collusion between their 'subjects' and those in my fiction: childhood, nature, sexuality, transformation. I realized that it wasn't by accident that I was drawn to their narrative structure and motifs.”

“Books are no different from goats! They enjoy an afternoon out on the lawn.”

“As a reader, coming to my reading as a writer immersed in fairytales, I can't help but notice in so many stories, plays, poems that I read, the sort of breadcrumbs of fairytale techniques, so I'm very excited when I notice that.”

“I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?”

“When I first began studying prices, it wasn't a topic that mathematicians were working on. Purely by accident, I saw a set of data on price changes presented in a lecture and realized they behaved similarly to the geometric models I was already studying.”

“I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.”