“There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right.”

— Neil Gaiman, American Gods, 2001, Ch. 9

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.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

“It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?”

“In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught; but in life there are many things to draw us aside.”

“If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces.”

“That which makes the man no worse than he was makes his life no worse: it has no power to harm, without or within.”

“Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.”