Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

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.

A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.

She slept a dreamless sleep free of dragons for she had slain them once again. The Children of Ankh

What the mass media offer is not popular art but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food forgotten and replaced by a new dish.

If you're bored with life - you don't get up every morning with a burning desire to do things - you don't have enough goals.

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.

God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls.

I played T-Mac. I cooked him. Roasted him. Wasn't even close.

It is our duty, my young friends, to resist old age.

It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death.

When our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.