But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy.

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.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.

When something's fallen apart as many times as usI can't put it back together, it's not the same

I looked like someone who'd had a night, and had a story to tell about it.

You can - because you believe that you can.

When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing.

I hate to say this, but I'll repeat it: After death, all we know that you do is stink.

The Linux philosophy is "laugh in the face of danger". Oops. Wrong one. "Do it yourself". That's it.

I've never proclaimed myself to be a shooter. But I am definitely a scorer.

All things change, and you yourself are constantly wasting away. So also is the universe.

I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways.