I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies.

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.

Who and what you affiliate your life around will likely determine who you'll become.

Sleep tries to seduce me by promising a more reasonable tomorrow.

Why ask for truth," Ser Barristan said softly, "if you close your ears to it?

I can understand that the whole world is interested in my wife Madonna. That's even why I married her.

Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne's a heavy mist before my eyes.

Be an artist at whatever you do. Even if you are a street sweeper, be the Michelangelo of street sweepers.

I make it a personal rule never to do anything that I don't really care about. It is surprising how much this cuts out.

I think that Jesus is the product.

It's almost impossible to make the case that Bush is a conservative. That may be good; that may be bad.

Do not destroy anybody's peace. You will find peace.