We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.

Death in the horror movies is when the monsters get you.

Some werewolves are hairy on the inside.

The most classic horror tale of this latter type is the Old Testament story of Job, who becomes human Astro-Turf in a kind of spiritual Superbowl between God and Satan.

We all have scars, Wharick. Mine happen to be on the the outside, " Kathel answered but knew what he said wasn't entirely true. He bore scars on the inside as well.

You need vision to transform political arena

You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

What is the poem, after it is written? That is the question. Not where it came from or why.

Of all our sunny world, i wish only for a garden sofa where a cat is sunning itself

Even the most sadistic and destructive man is human, as human as the saint.

What is a historian, anyway? It is someone who uses facts to record the development of humanity.

Real power comes when we stop holding others responsible for our pain, and we take responsibility for all our feelings.

I'm quite taken aback when I get something that appears to be technically a good photograph, because it's not necessarily my intention.

Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.