Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

by Neil Gaiman

“I think…that I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.”

The most accurate map possible would be the territory, and thus would be perfectly accurate and perfectly useless.

The tale is the map which is the territory.

the last twenty minutes have been the best years of my life.

But where does contagion end and art begin?”