Human beings do not like being pushed about by gods. They may seem to, on the surface, but somewhere on the inside, underneath it all, they sense it, and they resent it.

Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.

What would be the fun in doing things you know are going to work?

I don't think you should ever insult people unintentionally: if you're doing it, you ought to mean it.

I watch my heart disappearing into her rosebud mouth. My Valentine's jest somehow seems less funny.

Too soon, the sun will rise.

With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.