Neil Gaiman Quotes

Let's start a new tomorrow, today.

In my experience, writers tend to be really good at the inside of their own heads and imaginary people, and a lot less good at the stuff going on outside, which means that quite often if you flirt wit...

I just want you to know,' said the girl, coldly, 'that whoever you are and whatever you intend with me, I shall give you no aid of any kind, nor shall I assist you, and I shall do whatever is in my po...

The boy had the towering arrogance only seen in the greatest of artists and all nine-year-old boys.

People want to forget the impossible. It makes their world safer.

Stories are in one way or another mirrors. We use them to explain to ourselves how the world works or how it doesn’t work. Like mirrors stories prepare us for the day to come. They distract us from th...

Still, every little bit helps, as the old woman said when she pissed in the sea.

The ocean was back in the pond, and the only knowledge I was left with, as if I had woken from a dream on a summer's day, was that it had not been long ago since I had known everything. I looked at Le...

Information and knowledge: two currencies that have never gone out of style.

Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as they grow.

Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on.

In fact, the only things in the flat Crowley devoted any personal attention to were the houseplants. They were huge, and green, and glorious, with shiny, healthy, lustrous leaves. This was because, on...

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barba

I'm not scared of falling,' he told himself. 'The bit I'm scared of is the bit where you stop falling, and start being dead.

Now go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

I'm the idiot box. I'm the TV. I'm the all-seeing eye and the world of the cathode ray. I'm the boob tube. I'm the little shrine the family gathers to adore.' 'You're the television? Or someone in the...

There was no moon but the night sky was a riot of crisp and glittering autumn stars. There were streetlights too and lights on buildings and on bridges which looked like earthbound stars and they glim...

But then it occured to him that any progress he had made on his quest so far he had made by accepting the help that had been offered to him.

But that's how it goes; you think you're on top of the world, and suddenly they spring Armageddon on you.