Everything is in flux: everything changes; the body changes, the soul changes. We are capable of extraordinary self-transmutat ion and internal self-transforma tion.
Clive BarkerI've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your life.
Clive BarkerThe sun rose like a stripper, keeping its glory well covered by cloud till it seemed there'd be no show at all.
Clive BarkerMy feet are killing me." "I knew somebody who had feet like that. They'd walk all over him. Archie Kashanian was his name. He used to wake up with footprints all over his chest, all over his face. It was the death of him, finally.
Clive BarkerNothing ever begins. There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any other story springs.
Clive BarkerMutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the bonding-a physical horror that bonds us ever tighter to all those who have partaken. The intensity of the experience helps to widen the gulf between us and those who have not shared.
Clive Barker