At best you can hold death at bay, you can pretend it isn't there; but to deny it totally is a sickness. And I think that horror fiction is one of the ways to approach these problems, and, perversely perhaps, to enjoy a vicarious confrontation with them.
Clive BarkerTo dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.
Clive BarkerYouโve always got meโ โAlways?โ โDidnโt I just say so?โ โYesโ โAm I liar? โ โNo.โ I lied.
Clive BarkerI've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit it on a little chair and say, "You'll have three score years and ten," and take a photograph every minute. "And we'll watch you and photograph you for ten years after you die, then we'll run the film." Wouldn't that be extraordinary? We'd watch this thing get bigger and bigger, and flower to become extraordinary and beautiful, then watch it crumble, decay, and rot.
Clive Barker