I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

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.

It's a blindness thing, faith.

By pushing or forcing something upon people, you tend to push people further away.

Heaven: The Coney Island of the Christian imagination.

The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest.

What's beautiful about art is that it circumscribes a space, a physical and mental space. If you try to put the entire world into every page, you turn out chaos.

I always wanted to take the blame. I've always been apologetic for other people's faults.

Women are a colonized people.

Life is too complex to compress into soundbites. Every situation is different.

Be assured that it gives much more pain to the mind to be in debt, than to do without any article whatever which we may seem to want.

My father-he pretty much taught me everything I know. He still pushes me to be the best I can.