God is wild; I am tame....Night falls and an age ends....We call and are answered through the thick foliage, by voices too strange to be our own.

Every time someone ends a prayer in the Western world they say Amen - that is the name of an Egyptian god associated with completion. So we're still praying to their gods.

I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.

In a reality made of energy, thoughts may literally be things. What if it was intended that we create our own realities after death?

No doubt, I wont be believed, and thats all right, because, in a sense, it leaves me free in ways that belief would not.

In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.

I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.

I'm not so sure that horror should be dismissed as something less than literature.

In life we can never really value peace unless we experience war.

God's grace is our greatest need.

It's always easier to take something than work for it...

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

All my movies are about strange worlds that you can't go into unless you build them and film them. That's what's so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.

Awe is the best drug in the world

If you can't manage courtesy, try silence.

A bee rose up from a sun-filled paper cup, off to make slum honey from some diet root beer it had found inside.

With enough insider information and a million dollars, you can go broke in a year.