Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.

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.

I wanted to pull down a book, open it proper, and gobble up page after page

I hope he died of intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine is as of yet undiscovered.

We need to remember that our fight is spiritual. Our battle is a fight of faith, will, long suffering, and persistence.

But what would that be like feeling the tide rise out of the numbness inside

No one saw the recession coming. The UK businesses were solid as a rock, but the issues we had were in Paris, New York and LA. For every pound we were making here we were losing two pounds abroad.

Better to have a small role in God's story than to cast yourself as the lead in your own fiction.

They've a temper, some of them - particularly verbs, they're the proudest - adjectives you can do anything with, but not verbs.

When I look back at all the crap I learned in high school, it's a wonder I can think at all.

You'd be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides.

I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.