I've held a brain in my hands, which is an extraordinary experience.

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.

The bigger the dream, the better the story.

Relationships we complain about nevertheless keep us connected to life.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something, but to be someone.

Steven Gerrard would be the captain of my World XI dream team.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

There are haunters of the silence, ghosts that hold the heart and brain.

What is good for the bad, and what is bad for the good.

In conceptual art the idea or concept is the most important aspect of the work

I've witnessed thousands of superior athletes try to becomes hitters and fail at it.