We drift off to a beautiful place where we live a better, fuller life than what we’ve left.
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The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
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You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A nice long rest.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 August 2025 source ↗
Others on this question
View all 51 →I have lots of beliefs about that, but that will have to wait for another interview.
Neil Gaiman
Author of fiction, comics and screenplays
I like the idea of being atoms that other people can breathe in, and fabulous worm food.
We go back from whence we came.
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Throat and neck cancer in 2018. They told me six to eight months if it hadn’t been caught.
Heights, something happening to my children and Manchester United getting good again (I’m a Man City fan).
Fairly decent bloke.
This was said about me in a Radio 1 focus group: “I don’t pay my licence fee to hear scummy northerners.”
Working in a bottle factory, which lasted one day, and the Radio 1 breakfast show.
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