Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing, and life doesn't.

Identity can be so gelatinous sometimes.

Growing up, I took so many cues from books. They taught me most of what I knew about what people did, about how to behave. They were my teachers and my advisers.

You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.

You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

He sighed. It was a long sigh, weary and worldly-wise. The kind of sigh you could picture God heaving after six days of hard work and looking forward to some serious cosmic R&R, only to be handed a report by an angel concerning a problem with someone eating an apple.