10th November: Neil Gaiman

Neil Gaiman, science fiction writer, was born on this date in 1960. Here are 10 Neil Gaiman quotes:

1. Sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
2. You don't pass or fail at being a person.
3. I have always felt that violence was the last refuge of the incompetent, and empty threats the last sanctuary of the terminally inept.
4. You don't get explanations in real life. You just get moments that are absolutely, utterly, inexplicably odd.
5. He had noticed that events were cowards: they didn't occur singly, but instead they would run in packs and leap out at him all at once.
6. All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.
7. I would like to see anyone, prophet, king or God, convince a thousand cats to do the same thing at the same time.
8. Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
9. Sometimes the best way to learn something is by doing it wrong and looking at what you did.
10. Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.