There 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 BarkerI dreamed I spoke in another's language, I dreamed I lived in another's skin, I dreamed I was my own beloved, I dreamed I was a tiger's kin. I dreamed that Eden lived inside me, And when I breathed a garden came, I dreamed I knew all of Creation, I dreamed I knew the Creator's name. I dreamed--and this dream was the finest-- That all I dreamed was real and true, And we would live in joy forever, You in me, and me in you.
Clive Barker