Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

Every religion lies. Every moral precept is a delusion. Even the stars are a mirage. The truth is darkness, and the only thing that matters is making a statement before one enters it. Cutting the skin of the world and leaving a scar. That's all history is, after all: scar tissue.

It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." But children lose everything unless somebody is there to help them, and if your parents are too stupid to do it, maybe i ought to.

Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame.

He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.

we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

where the world ends is where you must begin