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Loki, that's me. Loki, the Light-Bringer, the misunderstood, the elusive, the handsome and modest hero of this particular tissue of lies.

I don't understand a word you're saying," snapped Odin.
"That's because you're throttlin' me, sir," said Sugar.
Odin loosened his grip.

What is a writer of fiction but a liar with a licence?

No one looks at us. We might as well be invisible; or clothing marks us as strangers, transients. They are polite, so polite; no one stares at us.

From a certain height, everyone looks the same - men, women, villains, kings - as if rank and fortune were simply an accident of perspective.

The past is an obdurate stranger that puts as many marks on us as we attempt to impose on it.

Sometimes survival is the worst alternative there is

The day stretched out in front of him like an empty road in the desert.

Some people spend the whole of their lives sitting waiting for one train, only to find that they never even made it to the station.

The dead know everything but they don't give a damn.

Change isn't always comfortable, but it is a fact of life.

You may be a foreigner, but you have the heart of a Frenchman.

The process of giving is without limits.

I don't think that white collar gives you sole right of access to the divine.

Rock salt and bread by the doorstep to placate any resident gods. Sandalwood on our pillow, to sweeten our dreams.

The battle of good and evil reduced to a fat woman standing in front of a chocolate shop, saying, Will I? Won't I? in pitiful indecision.

Like a flower she grows towards the light, without thinking or examining the process which moves her to do so. I wish I could do the same.

Like a domestic cat, purring on the sofa by day, but by night, a strutting queen, a natural killer, disdainful of her other life.

Knowledge is currency here....

I'm sorry. You went too far.'
Lovely. What an epitaph.

Seven o'clock on a Monday morning, five hundred years after the End of the World, and goblins had been at the cellar again.

Nothing dreamed is ever lost, and nothing lost forever.

I think if you are an outsider then you are an outsider always.

I'm not fond of cities: the constant activity and swarms of people.

Children are knives, my mother once said. They don't mean to, but they cut. And yet we cling to them, don't we, we clasp them until the blood flows.

Sometimes walking away is best. I should know. It's my specialty.

The great thing about books is that you can end with a question mark.

All right, Monsieur Jay,' she said, smiling. 'I'll tell them you're OK.

Polite contempt. The barbed and poisonous weapon of the righteous.

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

More. Oh that word. That deceptive word. That eater of lives; that malcontent.

We're gods, not saints. Everyone lies. Everyone cheats. Everyone scores off everyone else.

Places have their own characters ... But the people begin to look the same.

Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or tortuous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

I love it when my books cause controversy, when people argue violently about the ending.

It's a feeling which tells me that any woman can be beautiful in the eyes of a man who loves her.

I dream a lot, in colour and in sound and scent. Quite a few of my stories have come from dreams.

Don't worry so much about 'not supposed to'.

I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon.

If I'm going to die today, the least I can do is look fabulous while I'm doing it.

Anything that can be dreamed is true.

Life is what you celebrate. All of it. Even its end.

They tell you revenge isn't worth it. I say there's nothing finer.

There was a quote he could not quite remember, something about the past being an island surrounded by time. He had missed the last boat to the island.

Love not often, but forever.

Before you have children, you mostly think about the world in terms of yourself. And when you become a parent, the focus shifts to somebody else.

Better a king in the gutter,' he said, 'than a slave in an emperor's place

I don't pretend to know much about love, but that's how great love comes to an end, not in the flames of passion, but in the silence of regret.

A spider brings good luck before midnight and bad luck after.

To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think ... This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.

I have an advanced degree in procrastination and another one in paranoia.

Clones fit in. Freaks stand out. Ask me which one I prefer.

I was a very bad accountant; I didn't care about money, golf or discovering fraud. After about a year I was sacked; then I went into teacher training.

Not that a promise means much to a demon - or a god.

Work. Like pain, I sensed that this was an experience I would want to avoid as often as possible.

The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign.

Was it my fault that I got out of hand?
--Loki

Fiction is a tower of glass built from a million tiny truths, grains of sand fused together to make a single, gleaming lie.

A named thing is a tamed thing.

As authors, we all expect criticism from time to time, and we all have our ways of coping with unfriendly reviews.

I sell dreams, small comforts, sweet harmless temptations to bring down a multitude of saints crashing among the hazels and nougatines

Remember, it's the winners write the history books, and the losers get the leavings.

If wishes were horses, beggers would ride

Too much balast slows you down.

Please!" yelled Loki. "I am not being noble!

I believe that being happy is the only important thing. Happiness. Simple as a glass of chocolate or torturous as the heart. Bitter. Sweet. Alive.

I've never viewed you as an enemy, more an adversary ...

I'm not sure I believe in the whole 'ghost-afterlife' thing, but I think places are marked by people who have been there.

I'd rather be a freak than a clone.

You see, I do believe in miracles. I, who have passed through fire. I do believe.

A black cat crossed my path, and I stopped to dance around it widdershins and to sing the rhyme,
Ou va-ti mistigri?
Passe sans faire de mai ici.

Some areas of technology really don't interest me at all, but I welcome anything that makes life easier instead of harder.

The wind always brings us back to the same wall

Most problems can be solved through cake.

Their love was something which coloured the air between them like sunlight.

All those moments, those memories. Everything that we are, compressed in just two or three kilos of paper - the weight of a human heart.

She always had that about her, that look of otherness, of eyes that see things much too far, and of thoughts that wander off the edge of the world.

If knowledge was power I had under my possession the entire school

The Blessed Damozel essence of every dream and fairy story and legend and fear ...

For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes.

I carried recipes in my head like maps.

Your wolf is eating that man. I thought you should know.

Well, that's history for you, folks. Unfair, untrue and for the most part written by folk who weren't even there.

He is the kind of man who breakes biscuits in two and saves the other half for later

I'm insatiably curious.

He was the cleanest-cut comic-book schoolboy hero imaginable.

And when you fall from that parapet,the sound you'll be hearing as you go down will be me,laughing my head off.

The dead know everything, but don't give a damn.

I'm incapable of hiding my feelings when I'm around someone I don't like.

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
No one's immune to bribery.

But stories are worlds. New worlds for us to visit. In stories, we live forever.

Wisdom isn't everything. Survival requires an element of trickery, Chaos, subterfuge. All qualities I possess (if I may say so) in abundance.

Does that mean I can't hammer him?' said Thor.
Heimdall scowled. 'Not yet,' he said.'When can I hammer him, please?' said Thor.

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

I have a tendency to pick up my own challenges. The more difficult something it is, the more I want to try it.

A demon, if you prefer the term; although to be honest, the difference between god and a demon is really only a matter of perspective.

Set a church clock wrong to fool the devil, my mother always told me. But in this case I suspect the devil is not fooled.

Not for a minute.

I liked her better for showing a little spirit.

I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.

A thing named is a thing tamed.