American Gods was designed to be if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.

It stared at them, and it paused for a hundred years, which transpired in a dozen heart beats.

If people are standing up there saying, my football team just won with help from God, then obviously God just pissed over the other team.

On the first day Coraline's family moved in, Miss Spink and Miss Forcible made a point of telling Coraline how dangerous the well was, and they warned her to be sure she kept away from it. So Coraline set off to explore for it, so that she knew where it was, to keep away from it properly.

There are so many places we have not yet seen. So many people still to meet.

If you are protected from dark things then you have no protection of, knowledge of, or understanding of dark things when they show up.

I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.