Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.

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.

Just like your body and lifestyle can be healthy or unhealthy, the same is true with your beliefs. Your beliefs can be your medicine or your poison.

It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It's what we do consistently.

Sometimes the best & talented people are not the right people.

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

When we hear people talk of riches, honors and amusements of the world, let us remember that all things have an end, and let us then say: My God, I wish for You alone and nothing more.

I believe that God is totally moral, but nature, one of God's creatures, is not moral. Nature is blind.

I think Abraham Lincoln said believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see.

I always think about the streets because that's where I come from and that's where I'm going to die one day. That is my life.

Life is about using the whole box of crayons.

Coltrane had a sax, Dale Earnhardt drives a race car and everybody has their tools.