You 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 BarkerDarkness always had its part to play. Without it, how would we know when we walked in the light? Itโs only when its ambitions become too grandiose that it must be opposed, disciplined, sometimesโif necessaryโbrought down for a time. Then it will rise again, as it must.
Clive BarkerZombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling off; and you're trying to be as humane as you possibly can, but they are, after all, eating the cat. And the fear of mass activity, of mindlessness on a national scale, underlies my fear of zombies.
Clive BarkerThose old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Bookโs full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red Sea. Whatโs that if itโs not good old-fashioned magic? Want a little water into wine? No trouble! How about raising the dead man Lazarus? Just say the word!
Clive Barker