Philip Pullman

We are all subject to the fates. But we must act as if we are not, or die of despair.

People are frightened of themselves.

Love is not to be commanded.

True love doesn't mean being inseparable; it means being separated and nothing changes.

We can't let the polar ice caps melt. We can't let some species go extinct. We can't let ourselves destroy the world we live in.

Destiny is a word we use to justify our inability to control our own lives.

Without stories, we wouldn't be human beings at all.

When you choose one way out of many, all the ways you don't take are snuffed out like candles, as if they'd never existed.

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

It's true that some things never change, but some things do.

In the end, we'll all become stories.

We're all subject to the law of causality. Everything happens because something else happened first.