Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
NEIL GAIMANFairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
NEIL GAIMANPicking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like not to lose.
NEIL GAIMANBooks were safer than other people anyway.
NEIL GAIMANYou have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.
NEIL GAIMANWhat I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it’s got a bookstore, it knows it’s not foolin’ a soul.
NEIL GAIMANWe owe it to each other to tell stories.
NEIL GAIMANI would like to see anyone, prophet, king, or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
NEIL GAIMANLife is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
NEIL GAIMANOnly the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
NEIL GAIMANAnyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets.
NEIL GAIMANIt’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.
NEIL GAIMANWe often confuse what we wish for with what is.
NEIL GAIMANBlack as night, sweet as sin.
NEIL GAIMANIt’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean.
NEIL GAIMANBiting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.
NEIL GAIMANI 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.”
NEIL GAIMAN