Neil Gaiman Quotes
It`s not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we`re much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.
I was a "bookie" kid. I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you`re actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn`t find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.
It is a fool`s prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak.
What power would Hell have if those imprisoned there were not able to dream of Heaven?
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubt on their existence. Or lack thereof.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor.
We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don`t to make it all bearable.
Firstly, there is no such person as Death. Second, Death`s this tall guy with a bone face, like a skeletal monk, with a scythe and an hourglass and a big white horse and a penchant for playing chess with Scandinavians. Third, he doesn`t exist either.
I`ve been making a list of the things they don`t teach you at school. They don`t teach you how to love somebody. They don`t teach you how to be famous. They don`t teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don`t teach you how to walk away from someone you don`t love any longer. They don`t teach you how to know what`s going on in someone else`s mind. They don`t teach you what to say to someone who`s dying. They don`t teach you anything worth knowing.
Archimedes said that with a long enough lever and a solid enough place to stand, he could move the world.
