Quotes from Neil Gaiman

Fear is contagious. You can catch it.

Face your life, its pain, its pleasure, leave no path untaken.

There was Virginia Boote, the food and restaurant critic, who had once been a great beauty but was now a grand and magnificent ruin, and who delighted in her ruination.

The current total of countries in the world with First Amendments is one. You have guaranteed freedom of speech. Other countries don't have that.

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.

You can't trust other people. If it's important, you have to do it yourself

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?

Great, big, serious novels always get awards. If it's a battle between a great, big, serious novel and a funny novel, the funny novel is doomed.

I don't just randomly kill people... I kill people when it's funny.

Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.

You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.

The young woman was crying, in the way that grownups cry, keeping it inside as much as they can, and hating it when it still pushes out at the edges, making them ugly and funny-looking on the way.

Life without love is a shadow of things that might be

Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself, and all things possible.

Fairy tales are more than true–not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

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.

Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.

Kiss a lover, Dance a measure, Find your name And buried treasure. Face your life, It's pain, It's pleasure, Leave no path untaken.

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.

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

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