A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen.

Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.

Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.

THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.

Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.

He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.

I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.

Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird.

I am abroad in the night with my servants. We come to smoke the northern lights, to rape the Wendigo, to melt igloos with streams of hot, bloody piss. To see and see.”“Oh. You’re a bit east.

There’s real evil, Mr Honey. Not that existential crap, either.

The universe and its design is often one of arbitrary horror.

However, if we don’t confront the seed of lies, it gives place for them to take root in us and we become bound to the “prison cell” that those lies create.

Some people can never understand that you have to wait, even for the best of things, until the right time comes.

Be hungry for success, hungry to make your mark, hungry to be seen and to be heard and to have an effect. And as you move up and become successful, make sure also to be hungry for helping others.

That's what music is for me. It's a place to go to.

Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, complexity.

If they ask you to sign a contract up front or for money, that's usually a bad sign.

Cinema returns us to anima, religion of matter, which gives each thing its special divinity and sees gods in all things and beings. Cinema, heir of alchemy, last of an erotic science.

You touch the world even if you do not want it to touch you. -Leona Montgomery

It's not the man who pushes himself the hardest... it's the man who pushes himself the hardest after it gets painful.

As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that the king is not in danger.