All that I did, she said, everything I tried to do. All for nothing. Nothing is done entirely for nothing, said the fox of dreams. Nothing is wasted. You are older, and you have made decisions, and yo...
Turn my head, and you may go where you want. I turn it again, you will stay till you rot. I have no face, but I live or die by my crooked teeth—who am I?
I started trying to think what the best advicei'd been given over the years was.and it came fromstephen kingtwenty years ago, at the height of the success ofsandman.i was writing a comic that people l...
You’re enjoying this,’ said Amy. ‘My whole world has been taken over by a mysterious voice. All the people are extinct. Rory’s gone. And you’re enjoying this.’‘No, I’m not,’ said the Doctor, trying ha...
You must have a bladder like Lake Erie. I think empires rose and fell in the time it took you to pee. I could hear it the whole time.Thank you. Do you want something?
You don't have to test everything to destruction just to see if you made it right.
YOU KNOW HOW IT IS. YOU PICK UP A BOOK, flip to the dedication, and find that, once again, the author has dedicated a book to someone else and not to you. Not this time. Because we haven’t yet met/hav...
Would you think, Richard asked, that I was being picky if I pointed out that trying to find something with an angel on it in here is going to be like trying to find a needle in an oh my God it’s Jessi...
Why do we need the things in books? The poems, the essays, the stories? Authors disagree. Authors are human and fallible and foolish. Stories are lies after all, tales of people who never existed and...
When you reach the little house, the place your journey started,you will recognize it, although it will seemmuch smaller than you remember.Walk up the path, and through the garden gateyou never saw be...
When something looks enough like something else that people watching don't know what it is they're looking at.
When I grew up, I wanted to be a werewolf. Or a writer. But writer was definitely the number two alternative. Werewolfing was an easy number one.
We have to get the... the thing I got... to the Angel. And then he'll tell Door about her family, and he'll tell me how to get home. Lamia looked at Hunter with delight. And he can give you brains, sh...
Truly, life is wasted on the living, Nobody Owens. For one of us is too foolish to live, and it is not I.
This isn't about what is . . . it's about what people is. It's all imaginary anyway. That's why it's important. People only fight over imaginary things.
There was a tale he had read once, long ago, as a small boy: the story of a traveler who had slipped down a cliff, with man-eating tigers above him and a lethal fall below him, who managed to stop his...
There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.
There are little pockets of old time in London, where things and places stay the same, like bubbles in amber, she explained. There’s a lot of time in London, and it has to go somewhere—it doesn’t all...
The world is not ending. Not if, as Astounding Science Fiction used to suggest, humans are bright enough to think our way out of the problems we think ourselves into. I
The really dangerous people believe that they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.