With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.

You don't get heaven or hell. Do you know the only reward you get for being Batman? You get to be Batman.

For love is no part of the dreamworld. Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.

Some of the things are the same no matter which world you're in, kid. One of 'em is this: The quickest way out of something is usually straight through it.

"Some things may change," said Wednesday, abruptly. "People, however... People stay the same."

I'll find you. Don't worry. Just be on your own and I'll find you.

Ray Bradbury was not ahead of his time. He was perfectly of his time, and more than that: he created his time and left his mark on the time that followed.