Quotes from Neil Gaiman

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

I'm willing to make a fool out of myself in public. I'm also willing to make those mistakes that you're going to make the first time you go out, so hopefully the next time it will be better.

The TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.

And then it went, and time passed properly once more, every second following every other second just like they're meant to.

Amy: This time can we... lose the bunk beds? The Doctor: No Bunk beds are cool, a bed with a ladder, you can't beat that!

Time is fluid here', said the Demon.

She smiled at Coraline, as if it had been a very long time since she had smiled and she had almost, but not quite, forgotten how.

I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start.

Tristan and Yvaine were happy together. Not forever-after, for Time, the thief, eventually takes all things into his dusty storehouse, but they were happy, as these things go, for a long while

Q: I want to be an author when I grow up. Am I insane?"Neil Gaiman: "Yes. Growing up is highly overrated. Just be an au

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you

The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.

There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.

I have no plans to love you," said Coraline. "No matter what. You can't make me love you.

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

Empathy is a tool for building people into groups, for allowing us to function as more than self-obsessed individuals.

My theory on genre is that while there are people out there who believe that genre tells people what to read, actually I believe that genre exists as a marketing tool to tell you what to avoid.

I was not happy as a child, although from time to time I was content. I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.

[I spent] much of my time reminding Matt Groening that I really need to be a head in a jar on Futurama.

I think there should be an Occupy Gallifrey. Because 0.000001% of the people have 99.99999% of the Time.

As we age, we become our parents; live long enough and we see faces repeat in time.

Ray Bradbury was not ahead of his time. He was perfectly of his time, and more than that: he created his time and left his mark on the time that followed.