“Religions are places to stand and look and act, vantage points from which to view the world.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone,” said” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“He wondered reflectively what would happen if you asked a nun where the Gents was. Probably the Pope sent you a sharp… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I can get away before the storm hits. Away from a world in which opiates have become the religion of the masses. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Myths are compost. They begin as religions, the most deeply held of beliefs, or as the stories that accrete to religions as… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Tell him that we fucking reprogrammed reality. Tell him that language is a virus and that religion is an operating system and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
"The devil made me do it" I have never made one of them do anything. They live their own lives. I do… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“maybe there’s something at the back of it all, a creator, a great spirit, and so we say thank you to it,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“I think, well, I've had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever loved is dead,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“yeah, my people figured that maybe there’s something at the back of it all, a creator, a great spirit, and so we… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The only thing that kept me going was stories. Stories are hope. They take you out of yourself for a bit, and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
There's this thing, they have in french: L'espirit d'escalier. The spirit of the stairway. I don't think we have a word for… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If it makes you more comfortable, you could simply think of it as metaphor. Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“None of this can actually be happening. If it makes you more comfortable, you could simply think of it as metaphor. Religions… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I love religion. I could make up religions all day. I sort of think that in an ideal world I'd like to… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“None of this can actually be happening. If it makes you more comfortable, you could simply think of it as metaphor. Religions… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“If you sit down and think about it sensibly , you come up with some very funny ideas. Like: why make people… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Gods, religions and national boundaries are absolutely imaginary. They don't tend to exist. As soon as you pull back half a mile… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“None of this can actually be happening. If it makes you more comfortable, you could simply think of it as metaphor. Religions… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Newton Pulsifer had never...as far as he knew, ever believed in anything. It had been embarrassing, because he quite wanted to believe… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Like all sentient beings, Fat Charlie had a weirdness quotient. For some days the needle had been over in the red, occasionally banging jerkily… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“Shadow crawled across the floor to the yellow foam-rubber pad and climbed onto it, pulling the thin blanket over himself, and closed his eyes,… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“[T]hey could not help being amused every time another little human believed itself the center of its world, as each of us does.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You need more than a beginning if you're going to start a book. If all you have is a beginning, then once you've written… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
You can tell the date of an old science fiction novel by every word on the page. Nothing dates harder and faster and more… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“They were spells, spelled with words to make worlds, waiting for me, in the pages of books.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Finish what you're writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image