Spider venom comes in many forms. It can often take a long while to discover the full effects of the bite. Naturalists have pondered this for years: there are spiders whose bite can cause the place bitten to rot and to die, sometimes more than a year after it was bitten. As to why spiders do this, the answer is simple. It's because spiders think this is funny, and they don't want you ever to forget them.
Neil GaimanA nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up.
Neil GaimanI was one of those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.
Neil GaimanIt's not irrelevant, those moments of connection, those places where fiction saves your life. It's the most important thing there is.
Neil GaimanWhatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished.
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