It is going to take more than just a couple of good-hearted souls to raise this child. It will take a graveyard.

It's one thing to want money, but if you find yourself choking on a coin as you wake, the money is slightly less desirable.

The magic of comics is that there are three people involved in any comic. There's whoever's writing it and whoever's drawing it. And then there's whoever's reading it because they are creating the movement. They are creating the illusion of time passing.

Where does contagion end and art begin?

I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it.

It seemed to Coraline that it was crouching, and staring down at her, as if it were not really a house but only the idea of a house—and the person who had had the idea, she was certain, was not a good person.

Dahling, when God put teeth in your mouth, he ruined a perfectly good arsehole.