"I'm trying to write a book about what it means to be human, to grow up, to suffer and learn. My quarrel with much (no…"

"“She is the goddess of the dead. She comes to you smiling and kindly, and you know it is time to die.”"

"You cannot change what you are, only what you do."

"I knew I was telling a story that would be gripping enough to take readers with it, and I have a high enough opinion …"

"On an unseasonably, uncomfortably, unnaturally warm day in mid-October I sit here trying not to think about global wa…"

"They’re often bracketed together, Tolkien and Lewis, which I suppose is fair because they were great friends — both O…"

"His (C. S. Lewis's) work is not frivolous in the way that Tolkien is frivolous, though it seems odd to call a novel o…"

"Lyra and her dæmon moved through the darkening hall, taking care to keep to one side, out of sight of the kitchen."

"Her dæmon's name was Pantalaimon, and he was currently in the form of a moth, a dark brown one so as not to show up i…"

"I have said that His Dark Materials is not fantasy but stark realism, and my reason for this is to emphasise what I t…"