Nobody actually looks like what they really are on the inside.

I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you're wonderful.

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

It doesn't matter that I can't remember the details any longer: death happened to her. Death happens to all of us.

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.

With American Gods I was trying very, very consciously - there was a level at which it was a little like trying to write a novel in French - you know, "this novel is to be written in American."

Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.