..She had that brand of pragmatism that would find her the first brewing tea after Armageddon.

I know that I want to bring sex and horror together as I have been able to in my books.

She's...just a girl, you know. Like most girls: something and nothing.

To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.

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

Maybe the man had taken the wrong turning, but at least he'd travelled some extraordinary roads.

Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him. "Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her. "It takes a man with real heart" —he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest— "to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.