Lee was too cool by nature to rage at fate; his manner was to raise an eyebrow and greet it laconically.
Philip PullmanIorek Byrnison: Can is not the same as must. Lyra Silvertongue: But if you must and you can, then there's no excuse.
Philip PullmanWe shouldn't live as if [other worlds] mattered more than this life in this world, because where we are is always the most important place.
Philip PullmanIf 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?
Philip Pullman