Latest Quotes

“In a world where you sit around all day in your pajamas and swipe right on the faces of your dreams, the options problem rears its ugly head, making settling down seem so damn limiting. Yes, you have someone great, but are you sure they’re the greatest?”

— Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

“Hearts may break, but hearts are the toughest of muscles, able to pump for a lifetime, seventy times a minute, and scarcely falter along the way. Even dreams, the most delicate and intangible of things, can prove remarkably difficult to kill.”

— Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

“Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it's all been done before? Make good art. Probably…”

— Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

“The one thing you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked… That’s the moment you may be starting to get…”

— Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

“Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”

— Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

“At a certain point the cost of the work needed to maintain a fun single lifestyle outweighs the benefits. The nights when you have amazing casual sex start getting outweighed by the times you wander home alone wasted and wake up hungover with a half-eaten burrito sitting on your chest.”

— Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

“If you cannot be wise, pretend to be someone who is wise, and then just behave like they would.”

— Neil Gaiman, Make Good Art

“As I hit thirty, I started to despise the bar scene. I had experienced every single version of those nights. I knew all the possible outcomes, and I knew the probabilities of those outcomes. When you hit that point, you realize how fruitless trying to find love by barhopping can be; you have enough…”

— Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

“You don't pass or fail at being a person, dear.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel

“At one point I was the hopeful romantic who would stay out till 4: 00 A.M. every morning, worried that if I went home, I’d miss that magical, amazing woman who showed up at the bar at 3: 35 A.M. After many late nights and brutal mornings, though, I realized that most amazing, magical women don’t wal…”

— Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

“Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.”

— Neil Gaiman, Stardust

“I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.”

— Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere: Author's Preferred Text

“Adults follow paths. Children explore. Adults are content to walk the same way, hundreds of times, or thousands; perhaps it never occurs to adults to step off the paths, to creep beneath rhododendrons, to find the spaces between fences.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel

“I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments.”

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

“The best thing you can possibly do with your life is to tackle the motherfucking shit out of love.”

— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things

“If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.”

— Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“I believe that it is difficult to kill an idea because ideas are invisible and contagious, and they move fast.”

— Neil Gaiman, The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

“If I ever was texting frequently with someone and wanted to make an alias, I think I’d go with ‘Scottie Pippen.’ Then any friends who were peeking at my screen could be left wondering why I was texting with the former Chicago Bulls star on the reg. I only hope Scottie Pippen’s wife never has an affa…”

— Aziz Ansari, Modern Romance

“You grow up reading about pirates and cowboys and spacemen and stuff, and jus' when you think the world's full of amazing things, they tell you it's really all dead whales and chopped-down forests and nuclear waste hanging about for millions of years.”

— Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

“The future came and went in the mildly discouraging way that futures do.”

— Neil Gaiman, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch