I thought that beauty alone would satisfy, but the soul is gone. I can’t bear those empty, staring eyes.

All the fantasy writers I know have a way of dwelling on their own fears and phobias. A writer spends his life being his own psychiatrist.

If one could only discover the unwritten bases of black magic and apply formulae to them, we would find that they were merely another form of science... perhaps less advance, perhaps more.

He stopped and leaned against a pole and looked up at the deaf and swollen sky. It was a movement of dark shapes, a hurrying, a running.He closed his eyes. ("Hunger")

Able writers let us into their minds and show us how they think and by that open our minds to ourselves

I don't get involved in anything that's stupid.

I really had a problem with being 'the man.' I'm past it now, but that was my insecurity. I ran from that. I was cool with being No. 3 on the call sheet or No. 2.

Only her death could prove her innocence; a circle of impossible, deathly judgement.

The most foolish of all errors is for clever young men to believe that they forfeit their originality in recognizing a truth which has already been recognized by others.

It's always darkest before it becomes totally black.

We wanted to make sure that the film covered the main issues of his life. Musicianship, appearance.

You get to say that the Earth is flat because we live in a country that guarantees your free speech. But it's not a country that guarantees that anything you say is correct.

I like talking about things that are taboo, because it makes them not taboo anymore.

I like fireworks too, but I set them off in gardens or kebab stands. I never set fire to my own house.