Fiction takes us to places that we would never otherwise go, and puts us behind eyes that are not our own.
Neil GaimanThe TV's the altar. I'm what people are sacrificing to.' 'What do they sacrifice?' asked Shadow. 'Their time, mostly,' said Lucy. 'Sometimes each other.
Neil GaimanThere's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.
Neil GaimanWe live in a world in which the only utopian visions arrive in commercial breaks: magical visions of an impossibly hospitable world, peopled by bright-eyed attractive men, women, children... Where nobody dies... In my worlds people died. And I thought that was honest. I thought I was being honest.
Neil Gaiman