Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.

This is a roadside attraction,' said Wednesday. 'One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.

If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run.

There are new gods growing in America, clinging to growing knots of belief: gods of credit card and freeway, of Internet and telephone, of radio and hospital and television, gods of plastic and of beeper and of neon. Proud gods, fat and foolish creatures, puffed up with their own newness and importance. "They are aware of us, they fear us, and they hate us," said Odin. "You are fooling yourselves if you believe otherwise.

Note for Americans and other aliens: Milton Keynes is a new city approximately halfway between London and Birmingham. It was built to be modern, efficient, healthy, and, all in all, a pleasant place to live. Many Britons find this amusing.

I think I love my dreaming process because one of the things that my dreaming process does is sort out stories for me.

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.