You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.

You love life because life's all there is.

The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

I didn't cry. Real things don't make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I'm like most civilised humans.

You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it a room.

Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.

By all means, become an abomination--but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.

All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.

I read somewhere that when you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.

There's always someone's father, someone's mother, someone's wife, someone's son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.

If you don learn from others then others will learn from you.

You never discover the unexpected if you always stick with the familiar

I'm more verbal and not as private as I was as a kid.

I feel there’s no need to overstate.

Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.

Just breathing isn't living!

Instead of asking, 'What should a woman do—what is her role?' it would be far more helpful to ask, 'What is a woman—what is her design?' and, 'Why did God place Woman in our midst?

Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure.

Im a geek - I read fantasy novels, I play World of Warcraft, Im a massive gamer, I have Star Trek outfits.

There is a lot of melody and things that sound familiar in hundreds of songs.