Being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.

Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.

Here is a list of fearful things: The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings, The rabid bite of the dog's of war, The voice of one who went before. But most of all …

At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to …

Nothing really matters except a few things that really don't matter very much.

Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is an episode in a man's.

My father was a proctologist; my mother was an abstract artist. That's how I view the world.