# Quote — Neil Gaiman, Fragile Things

> “So you were in the nick?” said Smith suddenly.
>
> “Sorry?”
>
> “Prison. Pokey. Porridge. Other words beginning with a P, indicating poor food, no nightlife, inadequate toilet facilities, and limited opportunities for travel.”
>
> “Yeah.”
>
> “You’re not very chatty, are you?”
>
> “I thought that was a virtue.”

- Author: [Neil Gaiman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman.md)
- Book: [Fragile Things](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things.md)
- Page: 308
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Neil_Gaiman#Fragile_Things_(2006)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/so-you-were

## More from this book

> I think...I would rather recollect a life misspent on fragile things than spent avoiding moral debt.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/i-think-i-would.md)

> The average daytime speed of a vehicle through the streets of central London has not changed in four hundred years. It’s still under ten miles an hour.

p. 116 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/the-average-daytime.md)

> If they think you're a hero, they're wrong. After you die, you don't get to be Beowulf or Perseus or Rama any more. Whole different set of rules. Chess, not checkers. Go, not chess. You understand?

p. 321 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/neil-gaiman/fragile-things/if-they-think.md)