Famous Neil Gaiman Quotations

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"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor."
by Neil Gaiman
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."
by Neil Gaiman
"A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up."
by Neil Gaiman
"Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?"
by Neil Gaiman
"When he stood up, it was a very complicated motion. If the deck chairs on the Ship to the Sea of Night had opened up, they would have done so like that. It was like he was unfolding himself forever."
by Neil Gaiman
"He nodded to himself, glumly, hoping to give the vague impression of being a man in need of a corpse who was disappointed by the selection but was going to have to make do with what they had."
by Neil Gaiman
"Have you ever been in love? Horrible, isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and opens your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses. You build up this whole armor, for years, so no one can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life.... You give them a piece of you. They don't ask for it. They do something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so a simple phrase like 'maybe we should just be friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the mind. It's a soul hurt, a body hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love."
by Neil Gaiman
"All tapes left in a car for more than about a fortnight metamorphose into 'Best of Queen' albums."
by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
"God does not play dice with the universe: He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time ."
by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
"Death and Famine and War and Pollution continued biking towards Tadfield. And Grievous Bodily Harm, Cruelty To Animals, Things Not Working Properly Even After You've Given Them A Good Thumping but secretly No Alcohol Lager, and Really Cool People travelled with them."
by The eight Bikers of the Apocalypse Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
"Crowley had been extremely impressed with the warranties offered by the computer industry, and had in fact sent a bundle Below to the department that drew up the Immortal Soul agreements, with a yellow memo form attached just saying: 'Learn, guys.'"
by Crowley, Demon Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
"Shadwell hated all southerners and, by inference, was standing at the North Pole."
by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
"Many phenomena - wars, plagues, sudden audits - have been advanced as evidence for the hidden hand of Satan in the affairs of Man, but whenever students of demonology get together the M25 London orbital motorway is generally agreed to be among the top contenders for exhibit A."
by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
"You're Hells Angels, then? What chapter are you from?' 'REVELATIONS, CHAPTER SIX."
by Death in conversation with a biker Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
"I see things as they are, as they were and as they will be. And he was the lord of the things that are not, and were not and never will be"
by Neil Gaiman, The Wake


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