Neil Gaiman Quotes

I realize I have stopped thinking about political divides, about freedom fighters or terrorists, about dictators and armies. I am thinking only of the fragility of civilization. The lives the refugees...

I remember Icarus. He flew too close to the sun. In the stories, though, it’s worth it. Always worth it to have tried, even if you fail, even if you fall like a meteor forever. Better to have flamed i...

I remember my own childhood vividly . . . I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them.’ Maurice Sendak, in conversation with Art Spiegelman, The New Yorker...

I remember my own childhood vividly … I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn’t let adults know I knew. It would scare them.’ Maurice Sendak,

I remembered that, and, remembering that, I remembered everything.

I saw her chewing gum, when I was thirteen, and I fell for her like a suicide from a bridge.

I saw the world I had walked since my birth and I understood how fragile it was, that the reality I knew was a thin layer of icing on a great dark birthday cake writhing with grubs and nightmares and...

I serve the king of dreams and I do his bidding. But you are correct once I was a poet and like all poets I spent too long in the kingdom of dreams.

I still feels like I done when I was a tiny slip of a thing, making daisy chains in the old pasture. You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can d...

I suppose the point you grow up is the point you let the dreams go.

I think . . . I said things to Silas. He'll be angry.''If he didn't care about you, you couldn't upset him,' was all she said.

I think hell is something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go.

I think there are several aspects of our marraige we're going to have to work on.Babes, he told her. You're dead.That's one of those aspects, obviously.

I think there should be more black characters, and more of all kinds of characters, in fiction. Almost all of the main characters in my novel are black. And there are black characters in featured rol...

I think…that I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.

I thought about moving south, about continuing to run, continuing to pretend I was alive. But it was, I knew now, much too late for that. There are doors, after all, between the living and the dead, a...

I thought, I'm going to die.And, thinking that, I was determined to live.

I was a stranger and you took me in.-Joji G. Shoji, d. 1921

I was sad that nobody had come to my birthday party, but happy that I had a Batman figure, and there was a birthday present waiting to be read, a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs....