Quotes from Neil Gaiman, American Gods

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

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

Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes, and he held onto nothing, and he held onto dreams.

Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

Now there were stars overhead, hanging like frozen spears of light, stabbing the night sky.

Gods are great, " said Atsula, slowly, as if she were comprehending a great secret. "But the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return...

I don't know much more than I did when I was alive. Most of the stuff I know now that I didn't know then I can't put into words.

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

He had kissed her good night that night, and she had tasted like strawberry daiquiris, and he had never wanted to kiss anyone else again.

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

Everything that is, casts a shadow

I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating.

That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones.

So, " he asked. "How's death?""Hard, " she said. "It just keeps going.

Listen, gods die when they are forgotten. People too. But the land's still here. The good places, and the bad. The land isn't going anywhere. And neither am I.

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