Neil Gaiman: American Gods

Gods are great. [...] But the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return...

Chapter 13

There`s never been a true war that wasn`t fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right.

Chapter 9

People imagine, and people believe: and it is that belief, that rock-solid belief, that makes things happen.

Chapter 18

I think I would rather be a man than a god. We don`t need anyone to believe in us. We just keep going anyhow.

Chapter 18

The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous.

Chapter 9

I believe that life is a game, that life is a cruel joke, and that life is what happens when you're alive and that you might as well lie back and enjoy it.

Chapter 13

The quickest way is sometimes the longest.

Chapter 5

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered.

He wondered whether home was a thing that happened to a place after a while, or if it was something that you found in the end, if you simply walked and waited and willed it long enough.

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