Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise.

Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me.

Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human.

Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.

What I am I wished to be, and what I wished to be I am.

I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.

It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria.

He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic.

...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering.

For Anne and our cub, for making me and my life less beastly

The greatest treasures were most often guarded by the slyest and cruellest dragons.

Twenty years from now you will be disappointed you never used Cosmic Ordering today.

Exposing corruption, brandishing truth.

An angel once told me, "The inevitable consequence of love is the building of Temples."

No' and 'Yes' are words quickly said, but they need a great amount of thought before you utter them.

If you ask my dad for help... he'll help. Like a vulture helps an over-run armadillo on a Texas highway. One peck at the time.

What wastrel mankind destroyed takes time for nature to put to rights.

It's an extraordinary thing, this tiny little province of Northern Ireland, where carnage happened. And I was part of it. I grew up in it.

Bricks should be made in Spring or Autumn so that they may dry uniformly.

Guitar playing is very important to me. It's like golf to some other people; it's important to me that I play good.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.