A monster lies in wait in me,a stew of wounds and misery.But fiercer still in life and limb,the me that lies in wait in him
Clive BarkerNothing happens carelessly. Weโre not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an hour, that dies before it can lay eyes on those who made it, even that soul did not live without purpose: this is my sudden certainty.
Clive BarkerYou cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.
Clive BarkerThere are things that are more important than the news and whatโs happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination since humans were presumably imaginative. And I think thatโs what [people] find touching, these eternal ideas. Itโs one of the things that makes fantasy something that tends to stand the test of time because weโre reading, 50 years later, The Lord of the Rings.
Clive Barker