Wherever I go, I will speak of you with love.

I want to be remembered as an imaginer, someone who used his imagination as a way to journey beyond the limits of self, beyond the limits of flesh and blood, beyond the limits of even perhaps life itself, in order to discover some sense of order in what appears to be a disordered universe. I'm using my imagination to find meaning, both for myself and, I hope, for my readers."-Clive Barker

Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him. "Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her. "It takes a man with real heart" —he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest— "to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

I never want to be the producer that I too often got.

I'm a poet,' the young man said, 'And it's my job to remember the sadness of things.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.