Dana Goodyear on Neil Gaiman:

He wears black: black socks, black jeans, black T-shirts, black boots, and black jackets whose pockets are loaded with small black notebooks and pots of fountain-pen ink in shades like raven.

Decius:

I've gotten old enough that I now understand why adults seek to escape reality. Paradoxically, I think I was better at escaping reality when I was younger.

One young fish to another:

What the hell is water?

Gaiman:

The building blocks were either true or fictional lies, which feel like they're true. I thought, I'm going to tell it in my voice and use actual things that happened and talk about what it is to be three and be a child who has no power. It's a children's book for adults.

"Leonard Nimoy":

It's all lies. But they're entertaining lies. And in the end, isn't that the real truth?

The answer ... is No.

Goodyear:

Writing comics afforded Gaiman his great opportunity to invent a cosmology.

Michiru Hoshino:

Oh! I feel it. I feel the cosmos!

Gaiman, at a "sushi party" with teenagers:

"Do you lot have names?" he said brightly.

"Nooooooo!" they called, in unison.

Bush, at a birthday party:

"You can't talk sense to them," he said, referring to terrorists.

"Nooooo!" the audience roared.