When it comes to controlling human beings there is no better instrument than lies. Because, you see, humans live by beliefs. And beliefs can be manipulated. The power to manipulate beliefs is the only thing that counts ... Who knows what use they’ll make of you? Maybe you’ll help them to persuade people to buy things they don’t need, or hate things they know nothing about, or hold beliefs that make them easy to handle, or doubt the truths that might save them.

A story can be new and yet tell about olden times. The past comes into existence with the story.

For a while Bastian stood motionless. He was so stunned by what he had just heard that he couldn't decide what to do... What he had hoped was his ruin and what he had feared his salvation.

Without a past you can't have a future.

Lots of things take time, and time was Momo's only form of wealth.

Only the right name gives beings and things their reality. A wrong name makes everything unreal. That's what lies do.

Just as the setting sun turned the clouds to liquid gold.