Pastoral Resources

I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters.

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.

Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

Silver and gold the Gods have denied them, whether in mercy or in wrath, I am unable to determine.

Things are forgotten and then perhaps picked up again, if we're lucky, it lasts... if not, then it's in the lap of the gods. The important thing was to do some work that I liked and hopefully that some others might also like, whether for a minute, a week, a month, a year.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.

Though men determine, the gods doo dispose: and oft times many things fall out betweene the cup and the lip.

There is such a thing as tempting the gods. Talking too much, too soon and with too much self-satisfaction has always seemed to me a sure way to court disaster. The forces of retribution are always listening. They never sleep.

Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.

If you believe, as the Greeks did, that man is at the mercy of the gods, then you write tragedy. The end is inevitable from the beginning. But if you believe that man can solve his own problems and is at nobody's mercy, then you will probably write melodrama.

THE GODS was my first professional band and I learned a lot during that time. It was very cool playing with so many great musicians as it helped me to learn.

The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.

But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.

Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

Leave the rest to the gods.

The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

Anybody depending on somebody else's gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens.

Gods always behave like the people who make them.