I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

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.

We were revisionists

The key ingredient in engaging the power available from service is motive.

In the busy haunts of men.

While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.

I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.

You can serve or you can sing, and wreck your heart in prayer, working the world's hard work.

The transformation of silence into language and action is an act of self-revelation .

Madonna, as we know, is very difficult.

I guess you heard, Hillary Clinton has a new campaign slogan: "I've fallen and I can't get up!"

There is only one legend. That's me