Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me.

Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human.

Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.

Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise.

What I am I wished to be, and what I wished to be I am.

I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.

It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria.

He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic.

...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering.

For Anne and our cub, for making me and my life less beastly

The greatest treasures were most often guarded by the slyest and cruellest dragons.

One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful, subduing the other's military without battle is the most skillful.

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

It’s easy to confuse motion with progress.

I'm just happy to be working.

I am no big shot. I am not anybody's boss. I want to be everybody's servant.

If I ever have a family one day, everything else will pale in importance to that.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

The key to ongoing effectiveness [in evangelism] is a perpetual freshness in your growing knowledge of Him.

Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.

The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.