The real problem with stories - if you keep them going long enough, they always end in death.

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

Sister Mary chose that moment to come in with the tea. Satanist or not, she'd also found a plate and arranged some iced biscuits on it.

People seem to think that they can't come up with ideas, and they're wrong. They can and they do, but they just think of it as daydreaming, or wasting time. Kids get told not to make things up, and in my case, nobody told me long enough, or it just didn't stick.

When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.

What should I believe? thought Shadow, and the voice came back to him from somewhere deep beneath the world, in a bass rumble: Believe everything.

You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.