You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

It's only a world, after all, and they're just sand grains in the desert, worlds.

I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle turned up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is.

So, if a city has a personality, maybe it also has a soul. Maybe it dreams.

The names are the first things to go, after the breath has gone, and the beating of the heart. We keep our memories longer than our names.