25 And the Lord spake unto the Angel that guarded the eastern gate, saying 'Where is the flaming sword that was given unto thee?'26 And the Angel said, 'I had it here only a moment ago, I must have put it down somewhere, forget my own head next.'27 And the Lord did not ask him again.

— Neil Gaiman

A book is a dream you hold in your hands

— Neil Gaiman

A book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else's head. You see out of the world through somebody else's eyes. It's very hard to hate people of a certain kind when you've just read a book by one of those people.

— Neil Gaiman

Adult helplessness destroys children. Or it forces them to become tiny adults of their own.

— Neil Gaiman

Adults follow paths. Children explore.

— Neil Gaiman

Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences.

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Neil Gaiman

After four days of flight, she had found a hiding place...

— Neil Gaiman

A graveyard is not a democracy, and yet death is the great democracy.

— Neil Gaiman

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world.

— Neil Gaiman