I would advise budding writers some other kind of job, unless they think they're very, very lucky.

He felt as if he had been shipwrecked on the Titanic, but in the nick of time had been rescued. By the Lusitania

[...] the awesome splendor of the universe is much easier to deal with if you think of it as a series of small chunks.

I've got wide tastes, but I don't like jazz.

People don't like to say Horror so they say Dark Fantasy because that's Horror wearing a collar and tie.

And it came to pass that in time the Great God Om spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One: "Psst!

I was just a kid then. But I won't forget. Nor will others. There's lots of people with reason to hate the Church.