Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.

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.

I was happy without having sought happiness.

With all our reasons for living. Through our love and laughter, there's an unmistakable truth. The most valuable love in the world is a healthy relationship with our children.

Either they're still naive, or stupid.

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Oh, I've never been asked a silly question in my entire life.

See them demons and them omens staring at you, mind control, they want your soul. If he don't see a dollar, somebody visiting Satan

Climate change isnʼt a distant threat. Itʼs already changing the way we live.

No matter what the problem is, our experiences are just outer effects of inner thoughts.

No matter how many times you shake it the last drop always ends up in your pants

That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.