Neil Gaiman closed his University of the Arts commencement address with this exuberant call to creative action. After spending the speech encouraging graduates to pursue their art with determination, to treat their career like a distant mountain they're always walking toward, and to make good art no matter what, he ended with what amounts to a permission slip for imperfection. The genius of the closing was in reframing mistakes not as failures to avoid but as adventures to seek out. By stacking adjectives — interesting, amazing, glorious, fantastic — Gaiman elevated mistakes from something shameful into something aspirational. It was a fitting end to a speech that consistently argued against playing it safe, and it captured the rebellious spirit that had defined Gaiman's own unconventional career path from journalism to comics to novels to film.