Quotes by Neil Gaiman

Rules and responsibilities: these are the ties that bind us. We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves. I will do what I have to do. And I will do what I must.

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

Books are really places, make no mistake about that.

So life isnt exciting? continued Gary. Great. Give me boredom. At least I know where Im going to eat and sleep tonight. Ill still have a job on Monday. Yeah? He turned and looked at Richard.Richard nodded, hesitantly. Yeah.

Give me boredom. At least I know where Im going to eat and sleep tonight.

Fat Charlie went back to his hotel room, the colour of underwater, where his lime sat, like a small green Buddha, on the countertop.Youre no help, he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.

you do your own time in prison. You dont do anyone elses time for them.

Trees there were, old as trees can be, huge and grasping with hearts black as sin. Strange trees that some said walked in the night.

The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.

The last dead leaves of fall crackled underfoot, winter-crisp.

Black as night, sweet as sin.

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, and he held onto nothing, and he held onto dreams.

Nothing happened. Nothing continued to happen. More Nothing. The Return of Nothing. Son of Nothing. Nothing Rides Again. Nothing and Abbot and Costello meet the Wolfman...

He shivered. His coat was thin, and it was obvious he would not get his kiss, which he found puzzling. The manly heroes of the penny dreadfuls and shilling novels never had these problems getting kissed.

Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with librarians, Im always impressed by their sheer awesomeness.

Its still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians would like tea. Or chocolates. Or a reliable source of funding.

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 that they are stealing from the future to pay for today. They are closing the gates that should be open.

Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night.

Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of night.

Neil Gaiman on librarians as knowledge navigators over time.“And information was hard to find. And it was hard to find because it was like a flower growing in a desert – you had a long way to walk, but a librarian could take you to the flower. Now it’s more like flowers growing in the Amazon jungle and you’re trying to find a specific flower,” Gaiman said. “Anyone who has spent 5 minutes Googling for information and just sees the amount of noise out there starts to realize that actually someone who knows what they’re doing is incredibly useful. And librarians know what they’re doing.