He was trapped in the electrochemical web of cognition, wherein curiosity leads into temptation, temptation leads into fear, and fear is considered an impulse to be mastered.

Enlightenment is its own reward, its own punishment. You begin to see so much more. And so much more sees you.

Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.

THE TESTAMENT OF TALL EAGLE is myth-making of epic scope.

Curiosity did not kill the cat all by itself.

I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo.

Pulver's skills as a post-Beat visionary are in rare form. A House of Hollow Wounds is a thrilling foray into the dark frontier of the weird.

A Pretty Mouth is a fine and stylish collection that pays homage to the tradition of the weird while blazing its own sinister mark. Tanzer's debut is as sharp and polished as any I've seen.

I am abroad in the night with my servants. We come to smoke the northern lights, to rape the Wendigo, to melt igloos with streams of hot, bloody piss. To see and see.”“Oh. You’re a bit east.

There’s real evil, Mr Honey. Not that existential crap, either.

The universe and its design is often one of arbitrary horror.

How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.

Writing is like giving birth to a piano sideways. Anyone who perseveres is either talented or nuts.

If what was supposed to have been destroyed in Paradise was destructible, then it was not decisive; but if it was indestructible, then we are living in a false belief.

I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

It's tough enough to have a relationship, and it hurts enough to have it not work.

The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored.

Do what you love and the necessary resources will follow.

Life helps those who help themselves.

the seat of the greatest patriotic loyalties is in the stomach. Long after giving up all attachment to the land of his birth, the naturalized American citizen holds fast to the food of his parents.

Which is better--to have laws and agree, or to hunt and kill?