He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the same sense of wonder, the same feeling, the same magic, that they got in reading the classic fairy tales as children.

One thing I've learned: you can know anything, it's all there, you just have to find it.

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

I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel

The world is always ending, for someone.

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.