Everything means something.

I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.

So Lyra and her daemon turned away from the world they were born in, and looked toward the sun, and walked into the sky.

Literary modernism kind of grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I’m telling a story! Oh, that can’t be the case, because I’m a clever person. I’m a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself? I know! I’ll write Ulysses.”

But we can trust him Roger, I swear," she said with a final effort,"Because he's Will.

If I'm reading something I happen to know and gets it wrong, I just don't trust the book any more. What I ask of a novel I'm reading is that it should know a fraction more about the things I know than I do. When I'm writing...I ask myself: would I be convinced by this if I read it? If I knocked against this bit of scenery, would it feel solid?

Once upon a time' lasts forever.