Neil Gaiman Quotes

They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn't it?

I have heard the languages of apocalypse, and now I shall embrace the silence.

What a refreshing mind you have, young man. There really is nothing quite like total ignorance, is there?

Never use five words if you can get away with one, eh? I've known dead men talk more than you do.

I was not so old that I would deny my own senses.

They were not my friends, after all. They were just the people I went to school with.

Notoriety wasn't as good as fame, but was heaps better than obscurity.

You can't run away from home without destroying somebody's world.

I believe in absolute honesty and sensible social lies.

Different people remember things differently, and you'll not get any two people to remember anything the same, whether they were there or not.

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

I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.

Leave no path untaken.

Small children believe themselves to be gods, or some of them do, and they can only be satisfied when the rest of the world goes along with their way of seeing things.

In my dream, it was the tongue of what is, and anything spoken in it becomes real, because nothing said in that language can be a lie. It is the most basic building brick of everything.

I remember making that vow, the one not to forget. Not to remember what happened, but to remember who I was and how I felt.

It's easy, there's a trick to it, you do it or you die.

If you were to try and pick him out of a group of boys, you’d be wrong. He’d be the other one. Over at the side. The one your eye slipped over.

Richard wondered how the marquis managed to make being pushed around in a wheelchair look like a romantic and swashbuckling thing to do.

I couldn't get you to the ocean, but there was nothing stopping me bringing the ocean to you.

Just go with it. It won't hurt.' I stared at him. Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.

Everything here is so weak, little girl. Everything breaks so easily. They want such simple things.

Hasn't there always been a moon?" "Bless you. Not in the slightest. I remember the day the moon came. We looked up in the sky - it was all dirty brown and sooty gray here then, not green and blue.

There are a lot of artists who've said they'd like to work with me. To be honest, I'm not sure there is such a thing as an inappropriate artist. The trick is matching the artist with a story.

You play your cards so close to your chest," said Shadow, "that I'm not even sure they're really cards at all.

Tristan and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while

A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.

Are you scared?’ asked Mr. Ibis. ‘Not really.’ ‘Well, try to cultivate the emotions of true awe and spiritual terror, as we walk. They are the appropriate feelings for the situation at hand.

The war had begun and nobody saw it. The storm was lowering and nobody knew it.

It begins, as most things begin, with a song.

Name the different kinds of people,’ said Miss Lupescu. ‘Now.’ Bod thought for a moment. ‘The living,’ he said. ‘Er. The dead.’ He stopped. Then, ‘... Cats?’ he offered, uncertainly.

I think I've got Fear down, but how do I take it all the way up to Terror?

Because there are mysteries. Because there are things that people are forbidden to speak about. Because there are things they do not remember.

It doesn't matter that you didn't believe in us," said Mr. Ibis. "We believed in you.

There are some as are what they are. And there are some as aren't what they seem to be. And there are some as only seem to be what they seem to be.

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

Goodbyes are overrated.

I wonder if I shall ever see her again, and I realize that I scarcely care. I can feel the sheets beneath me, and the cold air on my chest. I feel fine. I feel absolutely fine. I feel nothing at all.

Some of the things are the same no matter which world you're in, kid. One of 'em is this: The quickest way out of something is usually straight through it.

Hey, that's life, flick it off if you can't take a joke.

You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show part is that you never stop loving someone. There's always a piece of them in your heart.

Lies and half-truths fall like snow, covering the things that I remember, the things I saw. A landscape, unrecognizable after a snowfall; that is that she has made of my life.

Don't start anything you're not prepared to finish.

EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON.

Names come and names go.

For me, I would rather read a good book, from a contented author. I don't really care what it takes to produce that.

You shone like a star. The funniest, wisest writer & the finest friend

It's not hard to own something. Or everything. You just have to know that it's yours, and then be willing to let it go.

Life is a rock, but the radio rolled me over.

Rain in the graveyard, and the world puddled into blurred reflections.