The reality is that I feel that fear is a very spiritual emotion.

When I was a teenager there was no video in my country. Betamax came to Mexico very slowly.

But I think we are seeing a resurgence of the graphic ghost story like The Others, Devil's Backbone and The Sixth Sense. It is a return to more gothic atmospheric ghost storytelling.

In a world where we are so pragmatic and materialistic, fear is the only emotion that allows even a sophisticated person to believe in something beyond.

You only find yourself when you disobey. Disobedience is the beginning of responsibility, I think.

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.

I have a sort of a fetish for insects, clockwork, monsters, dark places, and unborn things

Well, the first thing is that I love monsters, I identify with monsters.

You have to believe the magic to see it.

Night is real. Night is not an absence of light, but in fact, it is daytime that is a brief respite from the looming darkness.

Christ did to the Jewish orthodoxy, what Buddha did to the Hindu orthodoxy.

My first car was a motorcycle.

In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.

With most of my books, I'll actually go out and look at the setting. If you describe things carefully, it kind of makes the scene pop.

I've seen [Trump] appear in a film or a TV show cameo or the tabloids, and he's a grotesquely distasteful human being and always has been, always made me want to take a shower.

City governments ought to be abolished, if only as a public health measure.

Do what you love and success will follow. Passion is the fuel behind a successful career.

Where do politicians come from? Why, they come from Uranus!

People like me prove that you can survive without romance, even though you end up a bit unbalanced and you tend to argue with your own reflection.

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.