It was as though in these last minutes together - when they had so much to say - they could say nothing of the least significance, for fear it open the floodgates.

There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination since humans were presumably imaginative. And I think that’s what [people] find touching, these eternal ideas. It’s one of the things that makes fantasy something that tends to stand the test of time because we’re reading, 50 years later, The Lord of the Rings.

Funny that. We live in islands of Hours and we never seem to have time enough for anything.

Words are sexier than flesh.

Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite

Give me B movies or give me death!

I don't like to make a distinction between the writer and the painter , finally , because I do both things anyway . Everybody's dreaming and trying to put down their dreams in the way that their hand knows best . I feel as much a unity , as much comradeship , with painters as I do writers .