Neil Gaiman Quotes

Years are not important, my dear.

Time as he grows old teaches all things.

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

But time growing old teaches all things.

The older I get, the better I used to be.

By the time we've hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons.

I think you get better as you get older.

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

I used to love getting older.

There's something about being around a long time that puts stuff in perspective.

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.

Years do not make sages; they only make old men.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?

I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

We pay when old for the excesses of youth.

The thing that's changed the way I do my stand-up act is having kids and getting older and wiser and smarter. There might be a joke or two in the past that I wish I hadn't done, but in the past, you can't have it back.