American Gods

"The gods are as real as you need them to be."

"You can't escape your own story."

"Belief without sacrifice is just hope."

"We are all pilgrims on someone else's road."

"Every coin has two sides."

"Death is just another kind of journey."

"The price of power is always paid by someone."

"There are no cheap miracles."

"The worst thing is the loneliness."

"We live in a world of symbols and stories."

"The past never dies; it just gets buried."

"Stories are the only truth that matters."

"You can't make deals with gods and expect to come out whole."

"We are the old gods. We require belief, sacrifice, and worship."

"The heart wants what it wants, or else it does not care."

"What is the opposite of a telephone conversation? An easy silence."

"You can't kill a god of stories with bullets."

"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."

"You're on a road. Nothing wrong with that. We're all on roads. They just happen to be very different roads."

"The world is equally strange to all of us."

"I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not."

"Every culture builds its gods from its needs."

"Betrayal hurts most from those you trust."

"You cannot unmake the past. You can only move forward."

"Men dream of their desires, and women remember their losses."

"Death is the only constant."

"You pay attention, the world will change. You stop paying attention, it won't."

"The only thing that makes sense is that nothing makes sense."

"You're on a road. Nothing but sky and desert and rock. Just like the past."

"I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not."