Give me the third best technology. The second best won't be ready in time. The best will never be ready.

There are few humanities that could surpass in discipline, in beauty, in emotional and aesthetic satisfaction, those humanities which are called mathematics, and the natural sciences.

Don't think you are special only because I hate you. I hate everybody.

I can't blame them, but I don't join in their sentiments. People can be very crazy when they are unhappy and heart-sore

As an experienced artist, I carry my work like a secret pregnancy. I am always aware of inner life and the need to protect it.

Avoid too much intense color. Make sure you mix colors and try them out. It's always good to do a swatch.

American Gods was designed to be if not open-ended, at least a trilogy kind of shape, so there's definitely one more book, probably another couple of books there to get written.

Money is attracted to great ideas.

I never open the newspaper, never. I never go to a website; I never turn on the T.V. hoping to find something I can attack. It isn't what I do. I defend.

Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.

I'll finish a body of work and think, "Okay, I got nothing. That was it. I'm done." And then you'll turn a corner and be like, "Oh my God!" And it keeps happening. I feel so lucky.