"I wanted to put a reference to masturbation in one of the scripts for 'Sandman'. It was immediately cut by the editor. He told me, 'There's no masturbation in the DC Universe.' To which my reaction was, 'Well that expalins a lot about the DC Universe.'"
"Fuck, I won a Hugo!"
“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
"The world is always ending, for someone."
"This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. "
"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."
"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it."
"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. "
"Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? "
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. "
"We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world."
"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. "
"Fuck, I won a Hugo!"
“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing.”
"The world is always ending, for someone."
"This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof. "
"The world always seems brighter when you've just made something that wasn't there before."
"You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas all the time. The only difference between writers and other people is we notice when we're doing it."
"Tomorrow may be hell, but today was a good writing day, and on the good writing days nothing else matters."
"It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit, and the emperor remains an emperor. "
"Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus? "
"Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten. "
"We are always living in the final days. What have you got? A hundred years or much, much less until the end of your world."
"As far as I'm concerned, the entire reason for becoming a writer is not having to get up in the morning. "
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