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

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

It is great good health to believe, as the Hindus do, that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one's dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical.

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

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.

What I tried to do is deliver movies that have worked for me more than once.

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

Nothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

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

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

As for theatre, there's ups and downs to everything. Theatre is ephemeral. But that is part of its charm because you can always say the production was better than it was.

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

For a writer, and particularly a writer of my genre, which is the fantastical, I think that it's to my advantage to feel remote from and disconnected from the world of deal making.

I certainly knew from an early age... how to tell stories; how to create pictures in other people's heads.

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.

I don't like PG-13 horror movies. I think they're a contradiction in terms.

I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.

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

I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to other people: paintings, books, movies.

I remember when I watched 'Hellraiser' with my mother. She cried when she saw my name in the opening credits, and I had to tell her that that was the happiest she was going to be for the next two hours.

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

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

One of the things I'm trying to do over and over again in my books is create new mythologies, create new ways to understand the complexity of the world. I think what mythology does is impress upon chaotic experience the patterns, hierarchies and shapes which allow us to interpret the chaos and make fresh sense of it.

Some people think that horror films are some sort of second class filmmaking, and the only way to bypass that thinking is being proud of the fact that we do it.

Though I respect hugely the effort and the care and the beauty of games, I want to be working with people who want to create the 'War & Peace' of games, the 'Citizen Kane' of games, and not just be warming up George Romero.

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

Everybody is a book of blood wherever were opened were red.

Im a great dog fanatic. My own dog died a little while ago and I take it very personally when things die its a major offence.

You just have to trust your own madness.

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

Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

Well, after I had the heart attack, it was a very simple choice. What the doctor told me I did and I did it religiously. I ate nothing but lean turkey breast or chicken breast or a piece of fish that was very lean. I mean I stayed away from everything.

My life is so full of surprises, nothing surprises me any more.

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it's time for special counsel.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Always, your work is the same: You have to tell a story, you have to make a character. It doesn't matter if there are thousands of dollars, millions behind it, or if there is nothing.

For years the Trio did nothing but play for musicians and other hip people. We practically starved to death.

There's nothing worse than talking about yourself to find out that you're not that interesting.

In the kingdom of heaven it is His work that will be crowned, not yours. Anything in you that He has not wrought Himself will count for nothing.

If nothing is to be done in the given situation, he must invent plausible reasons for doing nothing; and if something must be done, he must suggest the something. The unpardonable sin is to propose nothing, when action is imperative.

There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea.