What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

Well meaning adults can easily destroy a child's love of reading - do not discourage children from reading because you feel they're reading the wrong thing. There is no such thing as the wrong thing to be reading and no bad fiction for kids.

The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.

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

I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time.

Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.