"Some things may change," said Wednesday, abruptly. "People, however... People stay the same."

What are these fundamental principles, if they are not atoms?" "Stories. And they give me hope.

Mostly you are what they think you are.

Be boring, knowing everything. You have to give all that stuff up if you're going to muck about here.

Shadow looked down at the girl on the table. “What happened to her?” he asked. “Poor taste in boyfriends,” said Jacquel. “It’s not always fatal.

The cat wrinkled its nose and managed to look unimpressed. "Calling cats," it confided, "tends to be a rather overrated activity. Might as well call a whirlwind.

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.