You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

There will be days when the stuff is not flowing freely. What you do then is MAKE IT UP!

What is worth having is worth working for.

Because the great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. It's not like the text of Paradise Lost or James Joyce's Ulysses, and you have to adhere to that exact text.

There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.

Lord, if I thought you were listening, I'd pray for this above all: that any church set up in your name should remain poor, and powerless, and modest. That it should wield no authority except that of love. That it should never cast anyone out. That it should own no property and make no laws. That it should not condemn, but only forgive.

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