Something feels weird," he told Laura. That wasn't the first thing he said to her. The first thing was "I love you," because it's a good thing to say if you can mean it, and Shadow did.

I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start.

Names come and names go.

I was not scared of anything, when I read my book.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning.

To journalists my move from comics to films to best-selling novels was resembling those little evolutionary maps too much, where you see the fish, and then it can walk, and then it's an ape and then it gets up on its hind legs and finally it is a man. I didn't like that. I didn't like the fact that there was something rather amphibious about me - at least in their heads - back when I was writing comics. So I like continuing to write comics, if only because it points out that I haven't just started to walk upright or left the water.