01c. 1960 ADThere are three things, and three things only, that can lift the pain of mortality and ease the ravages of life,” said Spider. “These things are wine, women and song"..."Curry’s nice too" pointed out Fat CharlieNeil Gaiman / quote ↗
02c. 1960 AD...Minnesota, Wisconsin, all around there... has the kind of women I liked when I was younger. Pale-skinned and blue-eyed, hair so fair it's almost white, wine-colored lips, and round, full breasts with the veins running through them like a good cheese.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
03c. 1960 ADYou don’t need princes to save you. I don’t have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
04c. 1960 ADI don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
05c. 1960 ADYou're always you, and that don't change, and you're always changing, and there's nothing you can do about it.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
06c. 1960 ADA story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
07c. 1960 ADOmnia Mutantur, Nihil Interit. 'Everything changes, but nothing is truly lost.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
08c. 1960 ADI think maybe Hell is a place. But you don't have to stay anywhere forever.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
09c. 1960 ADThat 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.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
10c. 1960 ADShe really was pretty, for a grown-up person, but when you are seven, beauty is an abstraction, not an imperative. I wonder what I would have done if she had smiled at me like that now: whether I would have handed my mind or my heart or my identify to her for the asking, as my father did.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
11c. 1960 ADWe have an obligation to make things beautiful, to not leave the world uglier than we found it.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
12c. 1960 ADIdris: Are all people like this?The Doctor: Like what?Idris: So much bigger on the inside.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
13c. 1960 ADI’m just a soul whose intentions are good,’“ he sang to the crabs and the spiders and the palmetto beetles and the lizards and the night. ‘“Oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
15c. 1960 ADI make art, sometimes I make true art, and sometimes it fills the empty places in my life. Some of them. Not all.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
17c. 1960 ADThe one thing 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. The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked…that’s the moment you may be starting to get it right.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
19c. 1960 ADAlways good to remember when you're making art. You don't have to like it, just be ready to do the next thing.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
20c. 1960 ADAnd remember whatever discipline you're in, whether you're a musician or a photographer, fine artist or a cartoonist, writer, a dancer, a singer, a designer... whatever you do, you have a thing that's unique. You have the ability to make art.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
21c. 1960 ADLife imitates art, but clumsily, copying its movements when it thinks it isn't looking.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
23c. 1960 ADI don't think there is such a thing as a bad book for children . . . do not discourage children from reading because you feel they are reading the wrong thing. Fiction you do not like is the gateway drug to other books you may prefer.Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
24c. 1960 ADHow can you be happy in this world? You have a hole in your heart. You have a gateway inside you to lands beyond the world you know. They will call you, as you grow. There can never be a time when you forget them, when you are not, in your heart, questing after something you cannot have, something you cannot even properly imagine, the lack of which will spoil your sleep and your day and your life, until you close your eyes for the final time...Neil Gaiman / quote ↗
