Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

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.

It's good to start over. It will be scary but you will see what you're really made of it's the best opportunity to achieve what you never thought you could.

My only struggle has been trying to empower people who falsely believe that they are already empowered.

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

This punishment of death is the remedy, as it were, of a sick society.

You went and broke our lives. You are so much worse than a cheater. You killed something. And you killed it when its back was turned.

I played a lot of ball and got hurt, stitches and this and that. That, sometimes they said, built character. I don't think it built anything.

Oh, go in anywhere Colonel, go in anywhere. You'll find lovely fighting all along the line.

The laws of democracy remain a dead letter, its freedom is anarchy, its equality the equality of unequals

Some grow young, some grow cold...

Democracy is not possible without effectively working legal system.