Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile and look down at the Earth there are no national boundaries. There aren't even national boundaries when you get down and walk around. They're just imaginary lines we draw on maps. I just get fascinated by people who assume that things that are imaginary have no relevance to their lives.

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

The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.

That's the trouble with you young people. You think because you ain't been here long, you know everything. In my life I already forgot more than you ever know.

You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself.

I loved all books that I could read, and I never knew if I was ready for it until I tried to read it, so I tried to read everything.

We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.