If anyone's considering Neil Gaiman's nonfiction collection, The View from the Cheap Seats, I can definitely recommend it. I've been dipping into it since I received it as a gift, and while a few pieces have been mediocre (mostly forewords to other people's books), some of it is very, very good.
Sometimes he sounds a bit like Terry Pratchett:
"I believe that it is difficult to kill an idea because ideas are invisible and contagious, and they move fast."
(From his "credo," which I love in its entirety, and where he goes on to say "I believe that you can set your own ideas against ideas you dislike. That you should be free to argue, explain, clarify, debate, offend, insult, rage, mock, sing, dramatize and deny." )