I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

It is at night... that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.