I am brother to dragons, and companion to owls. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.

Here's the thing: If you're monitoring every single thing that goes on in a given culture, if you have all the information that is there to be had, then that is the equivalent of having none of it. How are you going to process that amount of information?

Well, what do you expect? The Comedian is dead.

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 with your second sentence and have them in a mild trance by the third. Then, being careful not to wake them, you carry them away up the back alley of your narrative and when they are hopelessly lost within the story, having surrendered themselves to it, you do them terrible violence with a softball bag and then lead them whimpering to the exit on the last page. Believe me, they'll thank you for it.

To some degree Satanism is purely a kind of disease of Christianity. You've got to really be Christian to believe in Satan.

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.