The only people I ever get irritated with are the ones who announce, using my Twitter handle, that they are no longer following me and why.

The stuff you bring back from dreams is free.

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

Justice?... Justice is a delusion you will not find on this or any other sphere.
And wisdom? Wisdom is no part of dreams, lithe walker, though dreams are a part of the sum of each life's experiences, which is the only wisdom that matters.
But revelation? That is the province of dream. It can be yours, but only if your heart is strong.

The best thing--in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing--about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.

It occurred to me then that the man might not be mad; I found this far more disquieting than the alternative.

Oh. I didn't know you could stop being a god.
You can stop being anything.

You shine like a beacon in a dark world.

Perhaps this is the ultimate freedom, eh, Dreamlord? The freedom to leave.

Continuity isn't actually something that I ever worry about. You use it where you need to, and you don't use it where you don't need to.

The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.

You're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.

I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.

'Doctor Who' was the first mythology that I learned, before ever I ran into Greek or Roman or Egyptian mythologies.

Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must.

After that he had more or less stopped reading. You could not trust fiction. What good were books, if they couldn't protect you from something like that?

It is sometimes a mistake to climb. It is always a mistake to never make the attempt.

She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark.

It's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom to stay just where you are. That's what it means to be an American. That's the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

The universe is amply supplied with night.