This is old news since it comes in a wrap up of important events of 2005, but I thought this quote was oh so laughable:
Pullman, 59, once believed it would be hard to find an audience for the trilogy, with its mingled influences from science fiction, William Blake and Tom Paine’s Rights of Man. “When people ask me what I meant by this story, or what was the message I was trying to convey in that one, I have to explain that I’m not going to explain.
“Anyway, I’m not in the message business; I’m in the ‘Once upon a time’ business.”
uh huh. We believe you, Philip


[...] Last week I posted about Philip Pullman who said he’s not in the message business. Rather, he says, he’s in the “once upon a time” business. [...]