Your flesh is killing your spirit. You have forsaken yourself.

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.

Find your flock and fly.

Positive thinking is better than negative thinking and... No thinking is far better then positive thinking

I was thinking lots of things, but most of them needed to stay thoughts, not words.

If you are talking about beauty, books are cheaper than cosmetics.

When any person suffers for someone in greater need, that person is a human.

I am not a fashion freak!

When I stand before the throne of God, I shall be judged innocent.

The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into fiction and to put out into books.

"What do women want?" "They eat green salad and drink human blood."

It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.