I was a stranger and you took me in. -Joji G. Shoji, d. 1921

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.

I wondered if that was true: if they were all really children wrapped up in adult bodies, like children's books hidden in the middle of dull, long adult books, the kind with no pictures or conversations.

We have to get the... the thing I got... to the Angel. And then he'll tell Door about her family, and he'll tell me how to get home." Lamia looked at Hunter with delight. "And he can give you brains," she said, cheerfully, "and me a heart.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

It's easier to believe in aliens than in gods.

'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.