"There is no thief like a bad book."
– Italian proverb
"I think the First Amendment is probably the most important thing that you have in this country. And I'm always horrified at the cavalier way that you [Americans] treat it."
– Neil Gaiman
"We who make stories know that we tell lies for a living. But they are good lies that say true things, and we owe it to our readers to build them as best we can. Because somewhere out there is someone who needs that story. Someone who will grow up with a different landscape, who without that story will be a different person. And who with that story may have hope, or wisdom, or kindness, or comfort. And that is why we write."
– Neil Gaiman, 2009 Newbery Acceptance Speech
"There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience."
– French Proverb
"Change. Change. Change. Change ... change. Change. Chaaange. When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do."
– Neil Gaiman, Delirium in Sandman #41: "Brief Lives"
"What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?"
"There isn't one."
"Oh. I thought maybe there was."
– Neil Gaiman, Delirium and Dream in Sandman #43: "Brief Lives"
"I don't like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?"
– Paul Newman, from Paul and Joanne: A Biography of Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward by Joe Morella and Edward Z. Epstein (1988), p. 157
"The mind knows no limits when used properly.... No pencil is sharp enough to draw as fine as you can think, and no paper large enough to hold your imagination. In fact, it is only in the mind that we can conceive infinity."
– The True Spirit of Adventure, Donald in Mathmagic Land
"We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never had, the time we did not spend together. I regret that I never told him that he made me happy, when I was in his company. The world was the better for his being in it. These things alone do I now regret: things left unsaid. And he is gone, and I am old."
– Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: The Wake
"Fashion is what everyone is doing. Style is what you're doing."
– Glenn O'Brien
"A remark generally hurts in proportion to its truth."
– Will Rogers
"Those who wish to sing, always find a song."
– Swedish Proverb
"Our worries, fears and dreams make fantastic stories. Take them with you as you grow up."
– Kate-Madonna Hindes
"We're fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance."
– Japanese Proverb
"Grammar in the workplace: It's the difference between a company that knows its shit, and one that knows it's shit."
– Will Rolls, June 27, 2011
"Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway."
– Tanenbaum, Andrew S. (1996). Computer Networks. New Jersey: Prentice-Hall. p. 83. ISBN 0-13-349945-6.