“Children, as I have said, use back ways and hidden paths, while adults take roads and official paths.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, 2013, Ch. 10

About Neil Gaiman

Born 1960

British author of novels, comics and short stories, including 'The Sandman', 'American Gods' and 'Coraline'.

“Make good art.”

“The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before.”

“Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters.”

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments.”

“Go where he will, the wise man is at home, his hearth the earth, his hall the azure dome.”

“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”

“Mature manhood: that means to have rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play.”

“The Tao is called the Great Mother: empty yet inexhaustible, it gives birth to infinite worlds.”

“Distrust and caution are the parents of security.”