No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.

While a modicum of consciousness may have had survivalist properties during an immemorial chapter of our evolution – so one theory goes – this faculty soon enough became a seditious agent working against us … we need to hamper our consciousness for all we are worth or it will impose upon us a too clear vision of what we do not want to see … Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are – hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones

What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next.

No one gives up on something until it turns on them, whether or not that thing is real or unreal.

Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m your local cable access station.

I wanted to do things to Richard that would make the sun grow cold with horror.

To my mind, a well-developed sense of humor is the surest indication of a person's humanity, no matter how black and bitter that humor may be.