"The more you judge, the less you love."
– Honore de Balzac
"Adult fiction is a wonderful thing and enriching to the soul and mind, and it takes you to great places. But children's fiction can change the world and give you a refuge from the intolerable. It can give you a place of safety and show you the world is not bounded by the world you live in — there's more than that."
– Neil Gaiman
"It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them."
– Alfred Adler
"You weren't an accident, You weren't mass produced. You aren't an assembly-line product. You were deliberately planned, specifically gifted, and lovingly positioned on the Earth by the Master Craftsman."
– Max Lucado
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
– Albert Einstein
"If speaking is silver, then listening is gold."
– Turkish Proverb
"Listening looks easy, but it's not simple. Every head is a world."
– Cuban Proverb
"Who speaks, sows; Who listens, reaps."
– Argentine Proverb
"Whatever you do, put romance and enthusiasm into the life of our children."
– Margaret Ramsey MacDonald
"A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky."
– Alexandre Dumas, Count of Monte Cristo
"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss."
– Alexandre Dumas, Count of Monte Cristo
Charlie Brown: Why would they ban Miss Sweetstory's book from the school library?
Linus: I can't believe it..I just can't believe it!
Charlie Brown: Maybe there are some things in her book that we don't understand...
Sally: In that case, they should also ban my math book!
Lucy: Do you realize how many great moments in life are wasted? Take, for instance, the great moment that is coming up right now...BANG! It's gone! You've just wasted it!
Charlie Brown: You're a lot of fun to be around.
"Hmm. Has to be "Fuck". It's multipurpose, effective, and it feels good in the mouth."
– Neil Gaiman, in reply to the question, "What is your favorite curse word?"
"I hope I don't ever stop writing. I love writing. It's awesome. You get to make things up & laugh at your own jokes."
– Neil Gaiman
"I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote, where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him."
– John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"...everybody has a secret world inside of them. I mean everybody. All of the people in the whole world — no matter how dull and boring they are on the outside. Inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds.... Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands, maybe.
"Isn't that a weird thought?"
– Neil Gaiman, Sandman: A Game of You
"People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character."
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A book is like a garden carried in the pocket."
– Chinese proverb
"I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books; I am a book fetishist—books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are. For an author, they're your headstone and your living monument: mine will allow me to lecture and entertain people long after I'm gone. Isaac Asimov put it best when he pointed out that the book, especially the paperback book, is a perfectly designed thing. It does not need an on-and-off switch; it doesn't need power; it's comfortable to read—black print on white paper, driven by sunlight, is terrifically efficient; it's a good size for putting down, and when you drop it you can find your place almost immediately. But I get deeply and genuinely pissed off that books weigh anything, and if I want to take them with me I have to load up a suitcase or the trunk of the car with them. Information weighs nothing!"
– Neil Gaiman, Feb 05 Locus Magazine