The problems with success, frankly, are infinitely preferable to the problems of failure.
Neil GaimanYou donโt want to ask after the health of anyone, if youโre a funeral director. They think maybe youโre scouting for business.
Neil GaimanYou got to understand the god thing. Itโs not magic. Itโs about being you, but the you that people believe in. Itโs about being the concentrated, magnified, essence of you. Itโs about becoming thunder, or the power of a running horse, or wisdom. You take all the belief and become bigger, cooler, more than human. You crystallize.โ He paused. โAnd then one day they forget about you, and they donโt believe in you, and they donโt sacrifice, and they donโt care, and the next thing you know youโre running a three-card monte game on the corner of Broadway and Forty-third.
Neil Gaiman