It's not the money or the fame; it's the time

What I envy most about Neil Gaiman -- well, what I envy the most are his imagination and talent, but that kind of goes without saying. What I envy most about his success, though, is not the fact that he's set for life even if he decides not to write another word, or that he's pretty much a literary rock star; it's that he's able to disconnect from the world and hole up for days on end to do nothing but think and write. If I could get one day to be left alone to do that, I wouldn't know what to do with myself.