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Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything ...

The Monastery of the Cenobitical Order was a large-walled compound built seven hundred thousand years ago on a damned-made hill of stone and cement.

I know many a strong man undone by marriage.

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.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair. - Sir Francis Bacon,

Who can call a man dead whose words still hush and whose sentiments move?

Hopelessness is reasonable. But nothing of worth in my life came of reason. Not my love, not my art, not my heaven. So I am hopeful

There was no harm done; and what would a Resurrection be without a few laughs?

The scent of sweet cherry had attracted hundreds of ants. They were crawling over it and into it, many drowning for their greed.

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

Sounds to me like those nails are touching too much gray matter.

Her mother had always said that women, being more at peace with themselves than men, needed fewer distractions from their hurts.

I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.

So intent was Frank upon solving the puzzle of Lemarchand's box that he didn't hear the great bell begin to ring.

Revulsion gave heat to his heals.

You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.

And this story, having no beginning, will have no end.

Evil, however powerful it seemed, could be undone by its own appetite.

Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.

Born from different parents, they were siblings in death, destroyed by the same hand.

To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.

Make a fist. Lightly. Leave enough room for a breath to pass through. Good. Good. All magic proceeds from breath. Remember that.

Behind stone, with stone, carrying stone

The dead have highways." Clive Barker

I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.

Never a truer word said or thought. Anything was possible.

Sometimes nature is even crueller than politics.

You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave.

You have to taste the sour urine before you break the jug.

I've got deeper journeys to take. Metaphysical journeys. Journeys to see Christ. Shaman journeys. It's what I've been elected by God to do.

Hell was easy; romance was hard.

But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy.

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.

Fear gripped Harry, like some old dope-pusher promising a terrible high.

Be strong, little mother," she said to Melissa. "I know you can be." "Yes?" Melissa said a little doubtfully.

Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.

There is in our natures a calamitous hunger for consummation.

You're damned if you can't forgive, Jude.

Putting down the devil was the Lord's own sport.

All I've ever wanted to do is darken the day and brighten the night.

There was a memory and a promise of blood in the air.

There's no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn't know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.

You've always got me"
"Always?"
"Didn't I just say so?"
"Yes"
"Am I liar? "
"No." I lied.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

I am not your Father. I am but a child, like you. Afraid, like you. Fearing sometimes, as you fear.

She slipped away unseen, like a shadow's shadow.

I've always thought that sex and horror belonged together.

A soul of water a soul of stone. A soul by name a soul unknown. The hours unmake our flesh our bone. The Soul is all and all alone!

Being with people makes me vomit. I don't like em. I never did.

There's nothing heroic about sacrificing yourself for him," Zeffer pointed out. "He wouldn't do it for you." "I know that.

Let the void come, and bring an end to the tyranny of hope.

I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.

Your kind has a supersitious terror of things ugly and broken; you gear that their conditon may somehow infect you.

Of such divine neglect was atheism made; belief could not be rekindled now, however profound his terror. Thoughts

Walk with care in dark places, and do not put your faith in anyone who promises you the forgiveness of the Lord or a certain place in Paradise.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

He was to be their page, their book, the vessel for their autobiographies. A book of blood. A book made of blood. A book written in blood.

Or were they breed who had died from their half-life, caught in the sun, perhaps, or withered by longing?

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.

I'm not the expert on the great gameplay. I come in for the character design, monsters, atmosphere. I'm not the technician.

He had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.

( ... ) An amalgam of sexual excess and demonic elegance, as likely to fuck you as tear out your heart.

After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?

That which is imagined can never be lost.

One man's pornography is another man's theology.

Always, worlds within worlds.

You want my advice!
Kiss the Devil, eat the worm.
Jan de Mooy, Another Matter; or, Man Remade

Was enough to know they had no Devil on their backs. Just old humanity, cheated of love, and ready to pull down the world on its head.

Fear is a place where you just tell the truth

We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.

We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring.

This kind of business (murder) required detachment. The trick was to do it almost casually, as you might flick on the radio, or swat a mosquito.

All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live. - Peloquin

We're making strange fictions of strange things inside ourselves.

It's always what may not be shown that shows the most. Forbidden words are always the most eloquent.

Dawn was close. The weaker stars had already disappeared, and even the brightest were uncertain of themselves.

Life is short
And pleasures few
And holed the ship
And drowned the crew
But o! But o!
How very blue
the sea is.

All the great powers in the world are blood-suckers and soul-stealers at heart.

Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.

She was a sea: and I had to swim in her.

Does the beef salute the butcher as it throbs to it's knees?

My skull was a face that concealed scorpions.

Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be broken than I'll never leave you.

I swear, the bigger the bully, the smaller the dick.

This was the nadir, surely. They had no further to fall.

I know that I want to bring sex and horror together as I have been able to in my books.

We're living; but we impersonate the dead better than the dead themselves.

Never believe your eyes

Arnie had always called her a dreamer, and maybe he was right about that.

My life is in the art that I make, and I'm very happy with it.

The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.

I've dealt with a lot of producers who were pricks and I'm determined not to be that.

Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

She wanted nothing that he could offer her, except perhaps his absence.

There's no delight the equal of dread.

They will all abandon you. All you have left is my desire for you.

I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.

Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

Nothing's perfect... because time passes... and the beetle and the worm find their way into everything sooner or later.

I am inevitable.