A Man Kills The Thing He Loves,

There Are Things That Are More Important Than The News And What’s Happening Today. There Are These Archetypes Which Are Part Of The Human Imagination Since Humans Were Presumably Imaginative. And I Think That’s What [people] Find Touching, These Eternal Ideas. It’s One Of The Things That Makes Fantasy Something That Tends To Stand The Test Of Time Because We’re Reading, 50 Years Later, The Lord Of The Rings.

I Have The Normal Complement Of Anxieties, Neuroses, Psychoses And Whatever Else - But I'm Absolutely Nothing Special.

At Best You Can Hold Death At Bay, You Can Pretend It Isn't There; But To Deny It Totally Is A Sickness. And I Think That Horror Fiction Is One Of The Ways To Approach These Problems, And, Perversely Perhaps, To Enjoy A Vicarious Confrontation With Them.

You Must Be Careful With Kindness. It's Usually Mistaken For Weakness By Stupid People.

I Don't Like To Make A Distinction Between The Writer And The Painter , Finally , Because I Do Both Things Anyway . Everybody's Dreaming And Trying To Put Down Their Dreams In The Way That Their Hand Knows Best . I Feel As Much A Unity , As Much Comradeship , With Painters As I Do Writers .