No man knows the future. It behooves us all to walk with care.
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Fables and Reflections
Any view of things that is not strange is false.
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Fables and Reflections
And all the time we spent in this place would fade and vanish, like a dawn dream on waking that colors the day but cannot be touched or remembered.
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Fables and Reflections
It's a dream, you say.
It's not a dream, they answer.
Steve Erickson, introduction to The Sandman: Dream Country
I think Hell's something you carry around with you, not somewhere you go.
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Season of Mists
You don't have to stay anywhere forever.
Edwin Paine, in conversation, Dec. 1990 (Neil Gaiman: The Sandman: Season of Mists)
We're not talking simple altruism, here. We're talking about something much deeper, that allows individuals to exist; we're talking about the hidden, shifting, undersea reefs on which every individual stands--rocks that so rarely show clear above the tides of illusion and desire. That's the support we mean, and it always begins in something outside the self.
Samuel R. Delany, Introduction to The Sandman: A Game of You
The price of getting what you want, is getting what you once wanted.
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman 3: Dream Country
I'm writing this on the fine edge of that blade that's consciousness on one side and dream on the other, that thin silver horizon where you hover right before falling asleep, and right before completely waking.
Steve Erickson, "Introduction to The Sandman 3: Dream Country"
"People pursue things," says Morpheus. "As soon as they have them they run away from them. But what they run away from stays with them, dragging along behind them like an ever-lengthening cloak."
Neil Gaiman, The Sandman: Book of Dreams