14 quotes found
“You love life because life's all there is.”
“The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.”
“You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.”
“By all means, become an abomination--but only while unhinged by grief or wrath.”
“All motivation derives from the primary fact of mortality. Take mortality away and motivation loses its...motivation.”
“Humans are moving into a new phase, one based on the knowledge that talking about their feelings has never got them anywhere.”
“I didn't cry. Real things don't make me cry. Only false or sentimental things can do that. In this respect I'm like most civilised humans.”
“Theres a reason humans peg-out around eighty: prose fatigue. It looks like organ failure or cancer or stroke but its really just the inability to carry on clambering through the assault course of m...”
“I read somewhere that when you're a kid it's people's cruelty that makes you cry, then when you're an adult it's their kindness.”
“Werewolves are not a subject for academe, she said, but you know what the professors would be saying if they were. Monsters die out when the collective imagination no longer needs them. Species dea...”
“You think horror enters spectacularly. It doesn't. It just prosaically turns up. Even in the first seconds you know you'll find it a room.”
“There's always someone's father, someone's mother, someone's wife, someone's son. This is the problem with killing and eating people. One of the problems.”
“Mailer famously labeled writing the spooky art. He was right. There's a lot of frontal lobe blather, a lot of pencil-sharpening and knuckle-cracking and drafting and chat, but the big decisions are...”
“I've always said women make the best agents. Deceit comes naturally to them. It's hardly surprising: If you were born with a little hole half the population could stick its dick into whenever if fe...”
