Picking one of your favorite creation or character is like picking the best one of your children! I'm not sure it really works. My very favorite characters tend to be ones I can go back to and look at, and have no idea how they popped out of my head.

It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but only the idea of a house—and the person who had had the idea, she was certain, was not a good person.

I'm going to go home. Everything is going to be normal again. Boring again. Wonderful again.

People are icebergs. So much of us is underneath.

If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.