{"author":"Neil Gaiman","author_id":"Neil+Gaiman","total_quotes":727,"quotes":[{"text":"CHORONZON: I am a dire wolf, prey-stalking, lethal prowler.MORPHEUS: I am a hunter, horse-mounted, wolf-stabbing.CHORONZON: I am a horsefly, horse-stinging, hunter-throwing.MORPHEUS: I am a spider, fly-consuming, eight legged.CHORONZON: I am a snake, spider-devouring, posion-toothed.MORPHEUS: I am an ox, snake-crushing, heavy-footed.CHORONZON: I am an anthrax, butcher bacterium, warm-life destroying.MORPHEUS: I am a world, space-floating, life-nurturing.CHORONZON: I am a nova, all-exploding... Planet-cremating.MORPHEUS: I am the Universe -- all things encompassing, all life embr.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["competition","cunning","hope","insight","outwit","wisdom"],"id":1261,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"Of course, everyone's parents are embarrassing. It goes with the territory. The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street. ","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["humor","parenting","parents"],"id":1977,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"The ball of dark fur pressed itself into my chest, and I wished she was my kitten, and knew that she was not.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["cats"],"id":2751,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"I lived in books more than I lived anywhere else.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["books"],"id":3423,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"I believe that in the battle between guns and ideas, ideas will, eventually, win. Because the ideas are invisible, and they linger, and, sometimes, they can even be true. Eppur si muove: and yet it moves.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["guns","ideas"],"id":3468,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"It always rains on the unloved-wet dreams-a fishing expedition-she kisses wyverns (the disneyland analogy)-dinner etiquette and chocolate lovers-desire swears by the first circle-'things are changing'-what can possibly go wrong?","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["desire","love"],"id":4105,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"If you want to call it that. But it is a very specific sort of magic. There's a magic you take from death. Something leaves the world, something else comes into it.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["death","magic"],"id":6625,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"We owe it to each other to tell stories, as people simply...","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["stories"],"id":7017,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"I have a brother. They say, you put us together, we are like one person, you know? When we are young, his hair, it is very blond, very light, and people say, he is the good one. And my hair it is very dark, darker than yours even, and people say I am the rogue, you know? I am the bad one. And now time passes, and my hair is gray. His hair too, I think, is gray. And you look at us, you would not know who was light, who was dark.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["subjectivity","time"],"id":7553,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"},{"text":"Without stories, we are incomplete.","author":"Neil Gaiman","tags":["incomplete","stories"],"id":8818,"author_id":"Neil+Gaiman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":727,"pages":73,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}