Writing's a lot like cooking. Sometimes the cake won't rise, no matter what you do, and every now and again the cake tastes better than you ever could have dreamed it would.

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision

I could be blindfolded and dropped into the deepest ocean and I would know where to find you. I could be buried a hundred miles underground and I would know where you are.

This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.

I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book store every month and spend my $2. That was my starting point. I wanted to write a comic that I would read. And that's still my agenda.

The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.