Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.

My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.

You see, the outcome of the battle is unimportant. What matters is the chaos, and the slaughter.

Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom, eh, Dreamlord? The freedom to leave.

Now Coraline," said Miss Spink, "what's your name?" "Coraline," said Coraline. "And we don't know each other, do we?" Coraline looked at the thin young woman with black button eyes and shook her head slowly.

American Gods was designed to be if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.