Adventures in the Dream Trade Quotes

“I don’t think that I’ve been in love as such
Although I liked a few folk pretty well
Love must be vaster than my smiles or touch
for brave men died and empires rose and fell
For love, girls follow boys to foreign lands
and men have followed women into hell
In plays and poems someone understands
there’s something makes us more than blood and bone
and more than biological demands
For me love’s like the wind, unseen, unknown
I see the trees are bending where it’s been
I know that it leaves wreckage where it’s blown
I really don’t know what "I love you" means
I think it means "don’t leave me here alone”
― Neil Gaiman, Adventures in the Dream Trade

“I really don't know what 'I love you' means. I think it means "Don't leave me here alone.”
― Neil Gaiman, Adventures in the Dream Trade

“I really don't know what 'I love you' means. I think it means 'Don't leave me here alone'.”
― Neil Gaiman, Adventures in the Dream Trade

“Our word Tragedy comes from the Greek, tragos-ode: “The song of the goat.” Anybody who has ever heard a goat attempt to sing will know why.”
― Neil Gaiman, Adventures in the Dream Trade

“Often people come to me and say "As a best-selling author with many published works to your name, and a basement full of awards, most of them in need of a good polish, you must have some words of advice for the world that you wish to share."
And I do.
It's this.
If you have a 25lb long-haired calico cat whose fur is all matted into evil dreadlocks, and who is too fat to properly clean herself, do not put fresh batteries into an ancient beard trimmer and attempt to shave her. You will only cause distress to the cat, and create a mess. There are professionals who will happily do this kind of thing, for a small fee. Leave it to them.
(This has been a public service announcement on behalf of Furball the cat, currently believed to be hiding in the attic in a severely traumatized state.)”
― Neil Gaiman, Adventures in the Dream Trade

“The man with the black-and-white-striped eyes shivered, and began hunting for a door, but none of the guests had remembered to bring a door with them.”
― Neil Gaiman, Adventures in the Dream Trade

“Introductions should be to the point. Afterwords can go all over the show. Even so, I know there were a few things I planned to say, back when I started.
I've got it written down somewhere, on a napkin. You ready? Okay.
The US healthcare system stinks; friendship's important; sex is never that simple; and cats do whatever the fuck they want to.
That's all. Thank you, drive safely, use a condom. Don't make too much noise leaving.
Goodnight.”
― Neil Gaiman, Adventures in the Dream Trade

“Listen, now. Read this carefully, because I am going to tell you something important. More than that: I am about to tell you one of the secrets of the trade. I mean it. This is the magic trick upon which all good fiction depends: it’s the angled mirror in the box behind which the doves are hidden, the hidden compartment beneath the table. It’s this: There is room for things to mean more than they literally mean. That was it.”
― Neil Gaiman, Adventures in the Dream Trade

“He was the most beautiful of all gods (despite often being represented as having horns), and many of the stories of his life and miracles have remarkable parallels to those of both Jesus Christ (whose biographers may have pinched them) and Osiris (from whose legends they were probably nicked in the first place).”
― Neil Gaiman, Adventures in the Dream Trade