Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

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.

A love of the ages.

And we, from the whole of our life experience there, have concluded that there is only one way to withstand violence: with firmness.

Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.

I would rather a thousand times be five minutes at the feet of Christ than listen a lifetime to all the wise men in the world.

That all men would be cowards if they dare, Some men we know have courage to declare.

Parsons are soules waggoners.

Set your face for religion being upright, the nature made by Allah in which He has created the human being.

The magic of fiction seems to be the more specific you are, the more universal you end up becoming.

I've been the lowest low on the planet, I've been a sinner all my days. And I was living with my hands on the trigger, I had no sense to change my ways.