Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

Tell them stories. They need the truth you must tell them true stories, and everything will be well, just tell them stories.

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

If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is inert and sullen in the face of business or politics...but takes fire at the thought of ghosts and vampires and witches and demons then feed the flames, feed the flames.

It's only through honesty and courage that science can work at all. The Ptolemaic understanding of the solar system was undermined and corrected by the constant pressure of more and more honest reporting.

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

We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not, or die of despair...death will sweep through all the worlds; it will be the triumph of despair, forever. The universes will all become nothing more than interlocking machines, blind and empty of thought, feeling, life...