American Gods Quotes

Call no man happy, said Shadow, until he is dead

~ Neil Gaiman

The best thing—in Shadow's opinion, perhaps the only good thing—about being in prison was a feeling of relief. The feeling that he'd plunged as low as he could plunge and he'd hit bottom. He didn't worry that the man was going to get him, because the man had got him. He was no longer scared of what tomorrow might bring, because yesterday had brought it.

~ Neil Gaiman

I’m just a soul whose intentions are good,’“ he sang to the crabs and the spiders and the palmetto beetles and the lizards and the night. ‘“Oh lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.

~ Neil Gaiman

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

~ Neil Gaiman

Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

~ Neil Gaiman

As sure as water's wet and days are long and a friend will always disappoint you in the end.

~ Neil Gaiman

We all have so many functions, so many ways of existing. In my own vision of myself, I am a scholar who lives quietly, and pens his little tales, and dreams about a past that may or may not have existed. And that is true, as far as it goes. But I am also, in one of my capacities, like so many of the people you have chosen to associate with, a psychopomp. I escort the living to the world of the dead.

~ Neil Gaiman

And I know an eighteenth charm, and that charm is the greatest of all, and that charm I can tell no man, for a secret that no one knows but you is the most powerful secret there can ever be.

~ Neil Gaiman

So, yeah, my people figured that maybe there's something at the back of it all, a creator, a great spirit, and so we say thank you to it, because it's always good to say thank you. But we never built churches. We didn't need to. The land was the church. The land was the religion. The land was older and wiser than the people who walked on it.

~ Neil Gaiman

The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

~ Neil Gaiman