There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. these worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters.
Neil GaimanI love making things. I love building things. I love the idea that something's in the world that wasn't there before.
Neil GaimanName the different kinds of people,โ said Miss Lupescu. โNow.โ Bod thought for a moment. โThe living,โ he said. โEr. The dead.โ He stopped. Then, โ... Cats?โ he offered, uncertainly.
Neil GaimanI was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.
Neil Gaiman