Neil Gaiman Quotes

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people.

There is no such thing as pure good or pure evil, least of all in people. In the best of us there are thoughts or deeds that are wicked, and in the worst of us, at least some virtue. An adversary is not one who does loathsome acts for their own sake. He always has a reason that to him is justification. My cat eats mice. Does that make him bad? I don't think so, and the cat doesn't think so, but I would bet the mice have a different opinion.

What you might see as depravity is, to me, just another aspect of the human condition.

I don't think anybody's all good or all bad.

Human nature is not black and white but black and grey.

Nobody is all good or bad.

I don't find anything black and white; I find grey in every person, and that is what excites me.

We are all somewhere or the other a little grey, not black and white. We have our imperfections.

I personally feel that no human is a hero or a villain. All of us have our grey sides, and that is why grey interests me: because it's more human, more life-like.

I don't believe in good people and bad people.

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.

There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.

What I'm saying is people like Hoodwink are not kind of evil villains, they're part of humanity. We can choose to disassociate ourselves from them and we can choose to pretend they're not there, but they are. We're all together in this.

If you look in real life, it is very hard to describe people as good people, bad people, heroes or villains. People aren't bad people. They all have their justifications.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that.

One of the big things that if you've got a guy who is doing things that other people could view as evil or bad, then you've got to find the silver lining: you've got to find the thing that makes this guy a good guy.

I think, to me, I was always taught you never approach any character as a villain. Every human being on earth really believes that they're doing the best thing. We all have our rationalizations.

The thing is, when you paint somebody in all of their colors, they're never all bad or all good. Even the worst person has humanity in there somewhere.

What makes 'The Wire' a beautiful story is how true to life it is. In other shows, you have a good guy and a bad guy. In 'The Wire,' bad guys are trying to be good, good guys are doing bad. You have real life. The people who do bad get bad things done to them.

There are the good and bad and every morrally ambiguous shade in between.

There's no black and white in this world; it's all grey. That's what people are like! No one think they're a baddie. Everyone thinks they're trying to do their bit to make the world a better place.

The truth is complicated, and few people are actually monsters.

Most people aren't good or bad. They're naive.