'Thou shalt not' might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.

No one has the right to live without being shocked.

You don't read it in the sense of reading a message; it doesn't work like that. What's happening is that the Shadows are responding to the attention you pay them.

I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God.... My books are about killing God.

I will love you for ever, whatever happens. Till I die and after I die, and when I find my way out of the land of the dead I'll drift about forever, all my atoms, till I find you again.

She was riding a bear! And the Aurora was swaying above them in golden arcs and loops, and all around was the bitter Arctic cold and the immense silence of the North.

There is another consequence of any belief in a single god, and that is that it is a very good excuse for people to behave very badly.