A monster lies in wait in me, A stew of wounds and misery, But fiercer still in life and limb, The me that lies in wait in him.

Believe me, when I say; There are no two powers That command the soul. One is God The other is the tide. -Anon From the novel Abarat

A monster lies in wait in me,a stew of wounds and misery.But fiercer still in life and limb,the me that lies in wait in him

Memory, prophecy, and fantasy— The past, the future, and The dreaming moment between— Are all in one country, Living one immortal day. To know that is Wisdom. To use it is the Art.

You just have to trust your own madness.

Horror fiction shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion.

I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.

I'm a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die-it's a major offence.

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite

We’re too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are, in case we are nothing, and holding on so tight, we lose everything else.

With renunciation life begins.

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.

And then after that, running around the bases, it was just one of those things. You couldn't believe what happened to you. And I look back on it, it's almost like it happened to somebody else.

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights.

Unhappiness is selfish, grief is selfish. For whom are the tears?

Public opinion is the last refuge of a politician without any opinion.

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

All I owe the world is my art.

He laughed, and the sound reduced the pain of every sore place on my body to the dullest ache.