Neverwhere Neil Gaiman Quotes

#1. We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner

Friedrich Nietzsche

#2. Engaging with creativity in a serious way is a shamanistic activity, and by extension when you choose to follow a mystical path you cannot have a "normal" life within the community. Your job is to stand outside the community and hold up the mirror.

Kevin Keck

#3. Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.

Socrates

#4. You must never imagine, that just because something is funny, it is not also dangerous.

Neil Gaiman

#5. It's a measure of how far I've come that I didn't bother to say, "This is impossible."
I'd gotten the hang of it now.
-Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (comics adaptation by Mike Carey and Glenn Fabry)

Mike Carey

#6. But there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.

Neil Gaiman

#7. If I had a bowler hat, I'd take it off to the author of this beautifully crafted steampunk novel.

Chris D'Lacey

#8. Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another.

Greg Rucka

#9. Birds are colder than animals that live on the earth, because they are not conceived in such intense and heated desire. Just as birds are lifted up into the air by their feathers and can remain wherever they wish, the soul in the body is elevated by thought and spreads its wings everywhere.

Jenny Offill

#10. Richard was thunderstruck: it had been like watching Emma Peel, Bruce Lee, and a particularly vicious tornado, all rolled into one and sprinkled with a generous helping of a mongoose killing a cobra. That was how she moved. That was how she fought.

Neil Gaiman

#11. Richard made a break for it. 'Sorry,' he said to the stunned guard, as he yanked his arm out of the man's grip, and fled. 'Wrong London.'

Neil Gaiman

#12. I enjoyed every minute of what I was doing with sessions, because The Blossoms, the group that I was singing with, they were the first black background singers. There weren't any.

Darlene Love

#13. I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

Tamsin Greig

#14. Out: Reading is fundamental. In: Feeling is fundamental.

Michelle Malkin

#15. They always scream when the eyeballs fall out.

Neil Gaiman

#16. When a spy sells something entirely new, all he needs to do is recount something you could find in any second-hand book stall.

Umberto Eco