Neil Gaiman Quotes

A story that began with, and exists because of, my love of the remoter parts of Scotland, where the bones of the Earth show through, and the sky is a pale white, and it's all astoundingly beautiful, a...

A table for TONIGHT should certainly have been booked years before-perhaps, it was implied, by Richard's parents. A table for TONIGHT was impossible: if the pope, the prime minister, and the president...

All things want to open. You must feelthat need, and use it...And then, suddenly, she understands, and,somewhere in her heart, she lets it be what it wants to be...and it opens.

Cats don't have shoulders, not like people do. But the cat shrugged, in one smooth movement that started at the tip of it's tail and ended in a raised movement of its whiskers.

Daisy looked up at him with the kind of expression that Jesus might have given someone who had just explained that he was probably allergic to bread and fishes, so could He possibly do him a quick chi...

Dreams shape the world

Elegantly accomplished, said Nehemiah Trot. I shall compose an Ode. Would you like to stay and listen?

For a moment he thought she was about to hit him, which would have been bad, or even start crying, which would have been much, much worse.

Go back? I don’t know. I think hell’s something you carry around with you. Not somewhere you go. They’re doing the same things they always did. They’re doing it to themselves. That’s hell.

Grown-ups don't look like grown-ups on the inside either. Outside, they're big and thoughtless and they always know what they're doing. Inside, they look just like they always have. Like they did when...

He felt her heart beating against his chest. The moment began to transmute, and he wondered if there was something he should do. He wondered if he should kiss her. He wondered if he wanted to kiss her...

He had heard about talking to plants in the early seventies, on Radio Four, and thought it was an excellent idea. Although talking is perhaps the wrong word for what Crowley did. What he did was put t...

He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity. He imagined he could see the very faces of the...

He stared up at the stars: and it seemed to him then that they were dancers, stately and graceful, performing a dance almost infinite in its complexity.

He was alone in the darkness once more, but the darkness became brighter and brighter until it was burning like the sun.

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing.

I already killed you once today, what does it take to teach some people?

I am hope.

I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.

I finally made friends with my father when I entered my twenties. We had so little in common when I was a boy, and I am certain I had been a disappointment to him. He did not ask for a child with a bo...