“This is a work of fiction. Still, given an infinite number of possible worlds, it must be true on one of them. And if a story set in an infinite number of possible worlds is true in one of them, then it must be true in all of them. So maybe, it's not as fictional as we think.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“He sighed. It was a long sigh, weary and worldly-wise. The kind of sigh you could picture God heaving after six days of hard work and looking forward to some serious cosmic R&R, only to be handed a report by an angel concerning a problem with someone eating an apple.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Magic" is simply a way of talking to the universe in a way that it cannot ignore.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“In an infinity of worlds, anything is not only possible, it's mandatory.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Hope when you've got nothing else, he once told us. But if you´ve got anything else, then for Heaven's sake, Do it!”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“All we really know of the universe is what filters in through our senses, and that isn’t a whole lot. Take the electromagnetic spectrum. It includes virtually every ripple of energy that powers the cosmos, from the long, lazy radio waves we communicate with through microwaves that we cook with all the way up to X-rays and gamma rays, which pack enough punch into their wavelengths to outshine an entire galaxy. All that majesty, all that infinite variety of energy, and all we see is a narrow little slice of it: seven measly colors. It’s like being invited to a royal banquet and then only being allowed to pick the crumbs off one plate.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“It's good to know where you are, but it's better to know where you're going.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“What good is a vocabulary that isn't used?”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“No problem,” I said with all the confidence of a lemming who thinks he’s headed for a nice day at the seashore.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“The quickest way out of something is usually straight through it.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Doesn't matter. You'll pick up what you need to know--cultural osmosis.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Sympatizuji s bolestí jeho rozhodování. A někteří muži vypadají s vousy dobře," četl v mém obličeji otázku a pokračoval: "Takže nikdy nemusí stát proti sobě v zrcadle, když se holí.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“If we just told the story simply and easily, then even a television executive would be able to understand it.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Sometimes war is necessary to teach us the value of peace. Sometimes you need to learn the real value of diplomacy in avoiding war. And I'd rather my students learned those lessons on the playground than on the battlefield.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“There were bad guys on flying manhole covers after me, and a guy with an armored crotch and a mirrored face.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Supongo que las habrá más guapas, más listas o mejores en el instituto de Greenville, pero nunca me he molestado en mirarlas. Por lo que a mí respecta, Rowena es la única chica que existe; aunque, tras dos años de esfuerzos, todavía no he logrado convencerla de que soy algo más que un extra de segunda en la película de su vida.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
“Sounds like you're trying to say that creation of new alternate worlds is a conscious decision.'
'I'm not trying to say it - I just said it.”
― Neil Gaiman, quote from InterWorld
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“The conspicuous fault of the Jeffersonian Party, like the personal fault of Senator Trowbridge, was that it represented integrity and reason, in a year when the electorate hungered for frisky emotions, for the peppery sensations associated, usually, not with monetary systems and taxation rates but with baptism by immersion in the creek, young love under the elms, straight whisky, angelic orchestras heard soaring down from the full moon, fear of death when an automobile teeters above a canyon, thirst in a desert and quenching it with spring water—all the primitive sensations which they thought they found in the screaming of Buzz Windrip. *”
― Sinclair Lewis, quote from It Can't Happen Here
“When you are rich, people treat you with respect.”
― Anthony Horowitz, quote from Crocodile Tears
“Too late she saw: what she’d favored him with in jest he had received with adoration.”
― John Barth, quote from Lost in the Funhouse
“As a functional Aspergian adult, one thing troubles me deeply about those kids who end up behind the second door. Many descriptions of autism and Asperger’s describe people like me as “not wanting contact with others” or “preferring to play alone.” I can’t speak for other kids, but I’d like to be very clear about my own feelings: I did not ever want to be alone. And all those child psychologists who said “John prefers to play by himself” were dead wrong. I played by myself because I was a failure at playing with others. I was alone as a result of my own limitations, and being alone was one of the bitterest disappointments of my young life.”
― John Elder Robison, quote from Look Me in the Eye: My Life with Asperger's
“Failing tastes of bile and dog vomit. Shame on any man who gets used to that taste.”
― Dan Simmons, quote from Olympos
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