A Valentine's Day Treat

Usually, I only post on Fridays lately, but I make exceptions for Holidays and special events, of course. Happy Valentine's Day all you kooky kids!

“Happy Valentine's Day. I nearly forgot.”
--Neil Gaiman 02/14/03


“Small Valentine’s Day Poem

Roses are red,
Violets are purple,
Which is a very hard word to rhyme
And makes me happy that on February the 14th we don't traditionally have to give each other oranges.”
--Neil Gaiman 02/14/06


“Signed 350 copies of Adventures in the Dream Trade. Then realised I was no longer making any sense and went up to my room to sleep but thought I'd post a Valentine's Day hullo to everybody first.”
--Neil Gaiman 02/14/02


“Happy Valentine's Day. Except in India, of course... Wondering how Valentines Day is celebrated in other countries, I turned to the Times of India, where I learn that they celebrate by calling in private detectives --This has probably been made necessary by an influx of blonde Australians.”
– Neil Gaiman 02/14/04


“This morning the phone began ringing at around 7:00am as small girls across town realised that a) school was cancelled and b) this was a disaster, not a cause for celebration, as they had Valentine's cards to give to each other, with small packets of sweets, candies, and other such edible delights attached, which meant that the phone was soon ringing off the hook as plans to c) get together and exchange Valentine's cards and sugary treats were made. I went off to my writing cabin to write and missed all the excitement as a small posse of ten year old girls managed to lock themselves into a room during the few minutes there wasn't an adult there. They hatched plots to free themselves, most of which seem to have involved climbing out of an upper-story window onto a snowy roof and attempting to walk around the house. Luckily they were freed before their plans were put into effect.”
– Neil Gaiman 02/15/05 (Seven past midnight)


“Valentine's Day is coming sooner or later. It's possible that you may, somehow, have missed the Valentine's Cards at http://www.meish.org/vd/. In drawing your attention to them, I am not proposing that you send one to anyone you love, might love, or are hoping to sleep with. I am especially not suggesting it if the person or people you send the card to also reads this journal.
It wasn't my idea. Honest.”
-- Neil Gaiman 02/08/04


"SONNET

I don’t think that I’ve been in love as such,
Although I liked a few folk pretty well.
Love must be vaster than my smiles or touch,
For brave men died and empires rose and fell
For love: girls followed boys to foreign lands
And men have followed women into Hell.

In plays and poems someone understands
There’s something makes us more than blood and bone
And more than biological demands...
For me, love’s like the wind, unseen, unknown.
I see the trees are bending where it’s been,
I know that it leaves wreckage where it’s blown.
I really don’t know what ‘I love you’ means.
I think it means ‘Don’t leave me here alone."
--Neil Gaiman 10/18/05


“[Writing Mirrormask] We had a character with the place-holder name of Puck, and we'd been trying to come up with a better name for him, and then it was February 14th so I called him Valentine, and we were done.”
--Neil Gaiman 06/17/03


“There's a Victorian sex-cries generator. Online. Honest. A Victorian sex-cries generator. It's at http://www.hootisland.com/cgi-bin/victorian.cgi .”
-- Neil Gaiman 08/15/03


Also meant to stick this up during Valentine's Day:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/13/opinion/13SEIG.html?pagewanted=print&position=.
It's all about bras.
– Neil Gaiman 02/15/04


“Happy Valentine's Day. I hope you get to kiss someone nice. Or not, of course, depending.”
–Neil Gaiman 02/14/04