I prefer my prose evocative rather than simply effective, with a bit of poetry to it.

I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird.

I tend to go back and forth between old favourites and "new" stuff, some of which could easily be by authors I've hitherto heard about but haven't had the chance to catch up with.

I've always wanted to write about a "haunted" film, something imbued with a malign, potentially fatal attraction, an image which poisons everyone who's unfortunate enough to view it.

There are gifts and talents that have not yet been used and power which has not been applied

When you write in prose you say what you mean. When you write in rhyme you say what you must.

As I tell my daughter, when you want something in life - no matter how impossible it seems - you need to fight for it.

I need some money. You got any money?

Play Mozart in memory of me - and I will hear you.

The way the banks behave is frankly unbearable. I didn't rob for me. I expropriated resources for a struggle. If I had robbed for myself that would be different.

Any believable prediction will be wrong. Any correct prediction will be unbelievable.

What moron said that knowledge is power? Knowledge is power only if it doesn't depress you so much that it leaves you in an immobile heap at the end of your bed.

To make the future demands courage. It demands work. But it also demands faith.

I always kind of just went ahead and tried things.