"In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that matters to you by your own strength and in your own way. Like it or not, you are alone in the forest, just like all those fairy tales that begin with a hero who's usually stupid but somehow brave, or who might be clever, but weak as straw, and away he goes, cheered on by nobody, via the castles and the bears, and the old witch and enchanted steam, and by and by we hope he'll find the treasure."