So let's not get frightened when the children read fantasy. It's the compost for a healthy mind. It stimulate s the inquisitive nodes, and there is some evidence that a rich internal fantasy life is as good and necessary for a child as healthy soil is for a plant, for much the same reasons.

Inside every lump of coal there's a diamond waiting to get out.

I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future." THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death. "What does it contain, then?" ME.

It was so loud and so deep, it wasn't really sound at all, just something that turned the air hard and then hit you with it.

Magic is just a way of saying 'I don't know.'

Despite rumor, Death isn't cruel--merely terribly, terribly good at his job.

It's a guilty secret of a lot of writers, as you get older you don't read as much fiction as you used to, mainly because it's like you are deconstructing it all the time.