Philip Pullman

“When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are still there, somewhere.”

“I stopped believing there was a power of good and a power of evil that were outside us. And I came to believe that good and evil are names for what people do, not for what they are.”

“We are all subject to the fates. But we must all act as if we are not.”

“The intention of the storyteller is not to tell you what to think, but to give you questions to think upon.”

“Let's be moral. Let's be decent. Let's be generous. Let's be kind.”

“Stories are the most important thing in the world. Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.”

“Children need art and stories and poems and music as much as they need love and food and fresh air and play.”

“Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it, Lyra. That's original sin.”

“Without stories, we are incomplete.”

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

“Being a practiced liar doesn't mean you have a powerful imagination. Many good liars have no imagination at all.”

“The Christian religion is a very powerful and convincing mistake, that's all.”

“True education is a kind of never-ending story.”

“That’s the duty of the old,' said the Librarian, 'to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.'”

“Everything has a meaning, if only we are clever enough to see it.”

“Thou shalt not might reach the head, but it takes 'Once upon a time' to reach the heart.”

“We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. 'Thou shalt not' is soon forgotten, but 'Once upon a time' lasts forever.”

“The world is full of ghosts, and some of them are still alive.”