Neil Gaiman is a story teller extraordinaire. He writes for both adults adults and children, including his iconic Sandman graphic novels, and the award winning novels for young readers, The Graveyard Book, and Coraline. He is an inveterate blogger and tweeter, and makes his voice heard regularly on the role of stories in our lives, including this thoughtful lecture he presented to The Long Now Foundation, featured in a resent post by the wonderful Maria Papova of Brainpickings.