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There's a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers.
I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems of death.
I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.
Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.
I've dealt with a lot of producers who were pricks and I'm determined not to be that.
'Underworld' was my first filmed book. I think there are about seven of my lines in it.
Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.
I know that I want to bring sex and horror together as I have been able to in my books.
You must be careful with kindness. It's usually mistaken for weakness by stupid people.
You’ve always got me” “Always?” “Didn’t I just say so?” “Yes” “Am I liar? “ “No.” I lied.
After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?
Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.
Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.
If there was a horror movie showing somewhere in Liverpool between 1967 and 1975, I saw it.
Leavening the flat bread of what we know, with the yeast of what we dream may come to pass.
..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.
Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.
Pinhead needed to say goodbye. He had a farewell speech to make. It was truly as simple as that.
How many human eyes...had snatched glimpses of their secret anatomies, down the passage of years?
The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide.
Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.
If you want to look like the people next door, you're probably smothering yourself into your dreams.
You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst.
Sooner or later even the most ambitious glutton must crawl away and seek the solace of the vomitorium.
Hell is reimagined by every generation. We have to reinvent the worst so that we can reinvent the best.
any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.
I used to think that you'd open the door, and there was Narnia. Increasingly, I think it's all around us.
There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion.
I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.
Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the sea is.
The sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.
Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.
Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
All things are true. God's an Astronaut. Oz is Over the Rainbow, and Midian is where the monsters live." - Peloquin
Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love
There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.
I have a vision of the world as being a lot darker, perhaps, than I did when I was 31 and wrote the 'Books of Blood'.
To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.
We're both thieves, Harvey Swick. I take time. You take lives. But in the end we're the same: both Thieves of Always.
I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
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.
I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.
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.
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.
Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with lore upon your face.
O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over: Breathe your last.
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!
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