"People who have little to do are excessive talkers."

“A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.”

“Man, even man debased by the neocapitalism and pseudosocialism of our time, is a marvelous being because he sometimes speaks. Language is the mark, the sign, not of his fall but of his original innocence. Through the Word we may regain the lost kingdom and recover powers we possessed in the far-distant past.”

“What's the point of God making us human if He doesn't want us to act like we're human?' 'To see if we can rise above our natures,'Megan said.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.136, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

“You have to finish things - that's what you learn from, you learn by finishing things.”

Source : "Neil Gaiman’s Advice to Aspiring Writers" by Maria Popova, www.brainpickings.org. September 11, 2013.

“When I get married, it will be for life - divorce is not an option.”

“And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.”

“A canter is the cure for all evil.”

“There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be.”