Neil Gaiman

I believe that reality is a myth we construct to deal with our madness.

The house smelled musty and damp, and a little sweet, as if it were haunted by the ghosts of long-dead cookies.

People believe, thought Shadow. It's what people do. They believe, and then they do not take responsibility for their beliefs; they conjure things, and do not trust the conjurations. People populate the darkness; with ghosts, with gods, with electrons, with tales. People imagine, and people believe; and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen.

Sometimes, I feel like a character in a book, and sometimes that’s a good thing, and sometimes it’s a bad thing.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that people are perfectable, that knowledge is infinite, that the world is run by secret banking cartels and is visited by aliens on a regular basis, nice ones that look like wrinkled lemurs and bad ones who mutilate cattle and want our water and our women. I believe that the future sucks and I believe that the future rocks and I believe that one day White Buffalo Woman is going to come back and kick everyone's ass. I believe that all men are just overgrown boys with deep problems communicating and that the decline in good sex in America is coincident with the decline in drive-in movie theaters from state to state. I believe that all politicians are unprincipled crooks and I still believe that they are better than the alternative. I believe that California is going to sink into the sea when the big one comes, while Florida is going to dissolve into madness and alligators and toxic waste.

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

I mean, maybe I am crazy. I mean, maybe. But if this is all there is, then I don't want to be sane.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

You are what you worship.

Every hour wounds. The last one kills.

The only thing that scares me is being forgotten. I can survive my own death. I can't survive not living.

It doesn't matter that people lie; what matters is that they believe.