I believe the vulpine greed of the corporate world is cut from the very same cloth as the tyrant of history.

Mobile phones ... they're not for communicating, they're for broadcasting. Broadcasting The Show Of Me.

Hell was a living place inside every membrane of flesh that temporarily passed itself off as human.

Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.

Folklore and mythology, as well as man's catastrophic disregard for nature, are the meat of Joseph D'Lacey's horror. But the prime cuts are always compassion and surprise.

What I am I wished to be, and what I wished to be I am.

It had not hurt his hands at all and the sudden release of energy, twinned with Dom's fall, gave him a sudden lunatic rush of euphoria.

He just existed before it and within the terrible presence that filled the cramped space of the attic.

...there is something demoniac in human nature that we are unable to stop revering.

For Anne and our cub, for making me and my life less beastly

The greatest treasures were most often guarded by the slyest and cruellest dragons.

Maybe you'll win when hell freezes over."He raised an eyebrow."That could be easily arranged.

The zombies were like Canadians, in that they looked enough like real people at first, to fool you.

That's the tragedy of the rich: They don't need anything.

A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.

I think horror films always have to be as simple as possible.

Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate.

The "difficult" female character can-and will-do the shocking, the unexpected and, as a consequence, will give your story an immediate jolt of energy. She is the character who doesn't fit the mold.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

To be spiritually dead is to be diabolically alive

The tragedy is that Dell didn't win it - we lost it.