Neil Gaiman Quotes About Universe

Quotes about: Universe

• I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for the Sandman. It was immediately cut by the editor [Karen Berger]. She told me, "There's no masturbation in the DC Universe." To which my reaction was, "Well, that explains a lot about the DC Universe."

  Neil Gaiman

  Cutting, Editors, Scripts

  "The Sandman Companion". Book by Hy Bender, 1999.

• I believe in a personal god who cares about me and worries and oversees everything I do. I believe in an impersonal god who set the universe in motion and went off to hang with her girlfriends and doesn't even know that I'm alive. I believe in an empty and godless universe of causal chaos, background noise, and sheer blind luck... I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

  Neil Gaiman

  Girlfriend, Lying, Believe

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman. Chapter 13, 2001.

• I noticed a long time ago that the Universe rewards belief systems. It doesn't really matter what you believe - it'll be there and waiting for you if you go and look for it. Decide the universe is, say, run by secret enormous teddy bears, and I can guarantee you'll immediately start running across evidence that this is true.

  Neil Gaiman

  Running, Believe, Long

• A short story is the ultimate close-up magic trick -- a couple of thousand words to take you around the universe or break your heart.

  Neil Gaiman

  Couple, Heart, Magic

• Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Journey, Other Worlds

  Neil Gaiman (2008). “M Is for Magic”, HarperCollins

• I am anti-life, the Beast of Judgment. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, gods, worlds…of everything. And what will you be then, Dreamlord?" "I am hope.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dark, World, Judgment

• When the first living thing existed, I was there waiting. When the last living thing dies, my job will be finished. I'll put the chairs on the tables, turn out the lights and lock the universe behind me when I leave.

  Neil Gaiman

  Jobs, Light, Waiting

  "The Sandman: Dream Country". Book by Neil Gaiman. Sandman #20: "Façade", 1991.

• If the same object from two different times touches itself, one of two things will happen. Either the Universe will cease to exist. Or three remarkable dwarfs will dance through the streets with flowerpots on their heads.

  Neil Gaiman

  Two, Different, Three

  Neil Gaiman (2013). “Fortunately, the Milk...”, p.74, A&C Black

• Science is a way of talking about the universe in words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a method of talking to the universe in words that it cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible.

  Neil Gaiman

  Reality, Two, Talking

  "The Books of Magic. Book I: The Invisible Labyrinth". Book by Neil Gaiman, 1990 - 1991.

• I'm sure there's an alternate universe where I got to become a pulpy science fiction writer.

  Neil Gaiman

  Fiction, Science Fiction, Fiction Writers

  Source: www.sffworld.com

• My wife, Amanda, is terribly good at warping reality. She is like a bowling ball on a rubber sheet, and you find yourself living in her universe, doing things that are completely unexpected or unimaginable for you, but you blink and you're up on a stage singing, or wearing a peculiar wig, or writing a book filled with feelings and emotion, or doing something equally as unlikely.

  Neil Gaiman

  Book, Writing, Reality

  "Uncharted Waters: Joe Hill Explores Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane". Interview With Robin A. Rothman, www.amazonbookreview.com. June 9, 2013.

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