Neil Gaiman Quotes

The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.

This is the kind of thing you wonder about when you make up things for a living.

I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.

Because if you don't stand up for the stuff you don't like, when they come for the stuff you do like, you've already lost.

Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.

On a day like today it’s worth saying, I believe survivors. Men must not close our eyes and minds to what happens to women in this world. We must fight, alongside them, for them to be believed, at the ballot box & with art & by listening, and change this world for the better.

We picked some pea pods, opened them and ate the peas inside. Peas baffled me. I could not understand why grown-ups would take things that tasted so good when they were freshly-picked and raw, and put them in tin cans, and make them revolting.

"What's your name," Coraline asked the cat. "Look, I'm Coraline. Okay?"

We build the stories in our heads. We take words, and we give them power, and we look out through other eyes, and we see, and experience, what others see. I wonder, Are fictions safe places? And then I ask myself, Should they be safe places?

I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.

I had to go to the store, I had decided, to bring back some apples — and I went past the store that sold apples and I kept driving, and driving. I was going south, and west, because if I went north or east I would run out of world too soon.

You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.

Look, I'm sorry it's over too. But good things have to end, stories have to end. It's what gives them meaning.