...because where we are is always the most important place.

The best way to get kids to read a book is to say: 'This book is not appropriate for your age, and it has all sorts of horrible things in it like sex and death and some really big and complicated ideas, and you're better off not touching it until you're all grown up. I'm going to put it on this shelf and leave the room for a while. Don't open it.

Just finished 'Secrecy' - truly enthralling both as a love story and as a tale of suspense - but much more than both.

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. He took a step forward, and turned to look back at Lyra, and laughed in surprise as he found himself turning into the night, the starlight, the air. . .and then he was gone, leaving behind such a vivid little burst of happiness.

But I know that all the things I do know are very small compared with the things that I don't know.

Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.