American Gods Quotes

There's none so blind as those who will not listen.

American Gods is about 200,000 words long, and I'm sure there are words that are simply in there 'cause I like them. I know I couldn't justify each and every one of them.

None so blind as those who will not see.

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

None so blind as those who won't see.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine.

With American Gods I was trying very, very consciously - there was a level at which it was a little like trying to write a novel in French - you know, "this novel is to be written in American."

A life that is, like any other, unlike any other.

I can believe things that are true and things that aren't true and I can believe things where nobody knows if they're true or not.

Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end.

Every hour wounds. The last one kills.