Neil Gaiman Quotes

An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

Every hour wounds. The last one kills.

Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

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

Sleep my little baby-oh
Sleep until you waken
When you wake you'll see the world
If I'm not mistaken...

Kiss a lover
Dance a measure,
Find your name
And buried treasure...

Face your life
Its pain,
Its pleasure,
Leave no path untaken.

Each person who ever was or is or will be has a song. It isn't a song that anybody else wrote. It has its own melody, it has its own words. Very few people get to sing their song. Most of us fear that we cannot do it justice with our voices, or that our words are too foolish or too honest, or too odd. So people live their song instead.

You've a good heart. Sometimes that's enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it's not.

"A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question."

Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences. I was a child, which meant that I knew a dozen different ways of getting out of our property and into the lane, ways that would not involve walking down our drive.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

I am selfish, private and easily bored. Will this be a problem?

I went away in my head, into a book. That was where I went whenever real life was too hard or too inflexible.

"Oh, monsters are scared," said Lettie. "That's why they're monsters."

We...we could be friends.'

We COULD be rare specimens of an exotic breed of dancing African elephants, but we're not. At least, I'M not.