None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME..

As I see it, a successful story of any kind should be almost like hypnosis: You fascinate the reader with your first sentence, draw them in further w….

The dusk reeks of fornication and bad consciences..

The world's a stage, & everything else is Vaudeville..

The one place gods inarguably exist is in the human mind..

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth].

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's….

I'm not a particularly dark individual. I have my moments, it's true, but I do have a sense of humor..

I'm not personally connected to the Internet, although nearly everyone that I know is, and many of them have a great time and no problems with it. An….

I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you ….

I'd prefer to include sex scenes alongside the adventure scenes and everyday-life scenes, as if they were all part of the same thing. Which of course….

There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go out and meet some….

It seems strange that my life should end in such a terrible place, but for three years I had roses, and apologized to no one..

We have laboured long to build a heaven, only to find it populated with horrors..

Once a man has seen society's black underbelly, he can never turn his back on it. Never pretend, like you do, that it doesn't exist..

We gaze continually at the world and it grows dull in our perceptions. Yet seen from another's vantage point, as if new, it may still take the breath….

Remember, remember the fifth of November of gunpowder treason and plot. I know of no reason why the gun powder treason should ever be forgot..

My dear, beautiful and imaginative things can be destroyed. Beauty and imagination cannot..

I really can't be bothered going to a barber. And shaving every morning, that's nightmarish. I spent my teenage years covered in tiny little bits of ….

Perhaps this is the purpose of all art, all writing, on the murders, fiction and non-fiction: Simply to participate..

I think if you were to sever the connection between arousal and shame, you might actually come up with something liberating and socially useful. It m….