You’ve a good heart. Sometimes that’s enough to see you safe wherever you go. But mostly, it’s not.

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

There is hope for you,’ said the Queen. ‘You believe you are my only hope, but, truthfully, I am yours.

If you you write with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you...

…but fear of death gives us strength.

“” ― Neil Gaiman

There are a number of paths that lead to this place. I have been avoiding them for some small time, now.

Can’t say I’ve ever been too fond of beginnings, myself. Messy little things. Give me a good ending anytime. You know where you are with an ending.

You have to believe. Otherwise, it will never happen.

It always rains on the unloved-wet dreams-a fishing expedition-she kisses wyverns (the disneyland analogy)-dinner etiquette and chocolate lovers-desire swears by the first circle-“things are changing”-what can possibly go wrong?

Really, he thought, if you couldn’t trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust?

Stories are webs, interconnected strand to strand, and you follow each story to the center, because the center is the end. Each person is a strand of the story.

But there was a kitten on my pillow, and it was purring in my face and vibrating gently with every purr, and, very soon, I slept.

I’m a mother,” said her mother, in her foodless flat where the dust did not dare to settle, “and I know what I know.

Biting’s excellent. It’s like kissing – only there is a winner.

I sat in the dark and thought: There’s no big apocalypse. Just an endless procession of little ones.

We all not only could know everything. We do. We just tell ourselves we don’t to make it all bearable.

In many ways, it was much, much harder to get the first book contract. The hardest thing probably overall has been learning not to trust people, publicists and so forth, implicitly.

We think that tomorrow, unless we surrender, they may drop the moon on us.” “You’re joking.””Wish I was.

The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

Everybody going to be dead one day, just give them time.

You’re alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you can change the world, the world will change. Potential. Once you’re dead, it’s gone. Over. You’ve...

I must confess, I have always wondered what lay beyond life, my dear.Yeah, everybody wonders. And sooner or later everybody gets to find out.

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....

It doesn’t matter that you didn’t believe in us,” said Mr. Ibis. “We believed in you.

If I could talk about it, I would not have to do it. I make art.

Adventures are all very well in their place, but there’s a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

It was sometimes said that the grey-and-black mountain range which ran like a spine north to south down that part of Faerie had once been a giant, who grew so huge and so heavy that,...

And your nose is remarkably obvious. As is the rest of your face, young man. As are you. For the sake of all that is holy, empty your mind. Now. You are an empty alleyway....

Memory is the great deceiver. Perhaps there are some individuals whose memories act like tape recordings, daily records of their lives complete in every detail, but I am not one of them. My memory is...

The thin girl was gulping down one of Richard’s bananas in what was, Richard reflected, the least erotic display of banana-eating he had ever seen.

And, too ignorant to be scared, too young to be awed, Tristan Thorn traveled beyond the fields we know…

Some things are too big to be seen; some emotions are too huge to be felt.

They also held that the way to salvation was to give way to lust and temptation in all things. And no greater percentage of them turned up here than of any other religion. Amusing, isn’t...

Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to close libraries as an easy way to save money, without realising...

I think I’ll dismember the world and then I’ll dance in the wreckage.

It’s easy to get work. But people who KEEP work in a freelance world – and more and more it is freelance – it’s because their work is good and because they’re easy to get...

exists for him chiefly as a body in a sequence of hotel rooms.

You’re weird,’ she said. ‘You don’t have any friends.”I didn’t come here for friends,’ said Bod truthfully. “i came here to learn.’Mo’s nose twitched. “Do you know how weird that is?’ she asked. “Nobody comes...

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

Hell may have all the best composers, but heaven has all the best choreographers.

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you’ll never be a novelist.

DEATH: “Mostly they aren’t too keen to see me. They fear the sunless lands. But they enter your realm each night without fear.”MORPHEUS: “And I am far more terrible than you, sister.

Writing may or may not be your salvation; it might or might not be your destiny. But that does not matter. What matters right now are the words, one after another. Find the next word....

Fictions are merely frozen dreams, linked images with some semblance of structure. They are not to be trusted, no more than the people who create them.

I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what she was saying, in my dreams. In those dreams I spoke that language...

Touched by her fingers, the two surviving chocolate people copulate desperately, losing themselves in a melting frenzy of lust, spending the last of their brief borrowed lives in a spasm of raspberry cream and fear.

Mostly you are what they think you are.

If we do not fight to create a future there will be no future for any of us.

I went down to Safeways, and I bought her a packet of best ground sirloin.