Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something. The Brits, maybe, or the Swedes. You know what I mean?" "No, Matthew. What do they say?" "The king is dead, that's what they say. The king is dead. Long live the king.

Stories are made up by people who make them up. If they work, they get retold. There's the magic of it.

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

I am an academic," said Professor Mandalay, "and thus have no finely developed senses that would be comprehensible to anyone who has not ever needed to grade papers without actually reading the blessed things.

I liked myths. They weren't adult stories and they weren't children's stories. They were better than that. They just were.

In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.

Some of us claim that he was a messiah, and some think that he was just a man with very special powers. But that misses the point. Whatever he was, he changed the world.