When I was young I was a fool. So wrap me up in dreams and death.

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.

Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals.

Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith," said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. "Loki," he said. "Loki Lie-smith." "You're slow," said Loki, "but you get there in the end." And his lips twisted into a scarred smile and the embers danced in the shadows of his eyes.

Children's fiction is the most important fiction of all.

While clothes do not, as the saying would sometimes have it, make the man, and fine feathers do not make fine birds, sometimes they can add a certain spice to a recipe.

Really, he thought, if you couldn't trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?