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.
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