The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.

Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.

Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.

I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.

Being a writer of fiction isn't like being a compulsive liar, honestly.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!