And then he'd tried to become an official Atheist and hadn't got the rock-hard self-satisfied strength of belief even for that.
Neil GaimanDelirium: 'What's the name of the word for the precise moment when you realize that you've actually forgotten how it felt to make love to somebody you really liked a long time ago?' Dream: 'There isn't one.' Delirium: 'Oh. I thought maybe there was.'
Neil GaimanThis was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.
Neil Gaiman