The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction

by Neil Gaiman

truth is not in what happens but in what it tells us about who we are. Fiction is the lie that tells the truth, after all.

I wanted books, and made no distinction between good books and bad, only between the ones I loved, the ones that spoke to my soul, and the ones I merely liked.

and the fundamental most comical tragedy of parenthood: that if you do your job properly, if you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won’t need you anymore.