Fortune Quote #2443

"I don't like flowers, not really. I like growing them, but that's only
because I like seeing them blossom, and seeing them die." -- Rose
Walker, "Sandman: The Kindly Ones" by Neil Gaiman

Fortune Quote #2442

"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you in school.
They don't teach you how to love someone. 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." -- Rose Walker, "Sandman: The Kindly Ones"
by Neil Gaiman

Fortune Quote #2441

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. -- Dream, "Sandman: The Kindly
Ones" by Neil Gaiman

Fortune Quote #2440

"I remember once I dreamed that Peggy died. And I woke up in tears. Then
I woke up a bit more, and it came to me it was only a silly dream. And I
rolled over in bed to tell Peg about it. But she wasn't there. And then I
woke up properly and I realized that she'd died a month before. Dreams are
tricky buggers. You can't trust them." -- Robert
Gadling, "Sandman: The Kindly Ones" by Neil Gaiman

Fortune Quote #2439

"You know, there's something it took me a couple of centuries to figure
out. I mean, there was a while when I thought that life was all about
fighting and eating and sex. Mainly sex.... But one day I realized that it
was sort of empty if you weren't with someone you wanted to spend some time
with." -- Robert Gadling, "Sandman: The Kindly Ones" by Neil Gaiman

Fortune Quote #2438

"If you find a watch in the desert, you don't assume it was spontaneously
created. You figure someone *made* it. That there's a watchmaker. And if
the watch has stopped, then you repair it." -- Prez
Rickard, "Sandman: World's End" by Neil Gaiman

Fortune Quote #2437

In the white house is a tiger skin rug, shot and killed many years ago by
Teddy Roosevelt. The feet of the great walk over that tiger skin each
day. It listens to policy being framed and secrets being spoken. Now do
you think that tiger would rather be dead and in the seat of power, or
alive, and walking the jungle of India, sniffing the wind for the scent of
game? -- Neil Gaiman, "Sandman: World's End" (Prez Rickard)

Fortune Quote #2436

"Wh-what happened?" "You died. Let me help you up." -- Unity &
Dream, "Sandman: The Doll's House" by Neil Gaiman

Fortune Quote #2435

Never apologize. Never explain. It's not a bad two-rule maxim for life,
all things considered, but its not very helpful when it comes to writing
afterwords for books. After all, the only reason people read afterwords is
for some kind of explanation of what they've read, if they haven't
understood it, or some kind of apology, if they have. -- Neil
Gaiman, Afterword to "Sandman: The Doll's House"

Fortune Quote #2434

But for some reason the Slate types... believe that Bush's inability to
articulate precisely what he believes is somehow more damning than Bill
Clinton's genius at articulating things he doesn't believe. Better to have
a clarity of expression of one's moral confusion, says Ivy League
liberalism, than to have confusion of expression of one's moral
clarity. -- Jonah Goldberg, NRO Editor