We each die countless little deaths on our way to the last. We die out of shame as humiliation. We perish from despair. And, of course, we die for love.

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.

I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

I will not fail, I will not disappoint you, I will not let you down.

My people, you gotta think before you move, you gotta speak before you cry, you gotta live before you die.

Ever been kidnapped by a poet if i were a poet i'd kidnap you put you in my phrases and meter.

If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough - you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal.

Thirty-five percent of all my dates were at the movies from 2013 to 2014.

Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die. . . ." Life can get away from you.

There is no "but" in it. The way to be an administration Senator is to vote with the Administration.