Today's Words of Wisdom

“…somebody…told me she was reading [Coraline] to her 8 year old son and got rather upset, and nervous, and freaked-out, and her son patted her on the hand and said ‘It’s okay, it’s only a story.’ Which I thought was a very reassuring place to be. Kids understand that. Kids are really good at fiction.”

You tell ’em, Neil. A nice interview on SuicideGirls.com with Mr. Gaiman, one of my favorite people and a very smart man (even if American Gods did obscurely annoy me. Well, it’s possible I missed something. …And even if he doesn’t take his sunglasses off in the breakfast room at Claridge’s. Ileen Maisel is still talking about that, Neil…).