I Love Meeting People Who've Read My

I've Learned Two Things In My Life. One That Love Is The Beginning And End Of All Meaning. And Two That It Is The Same Thing Whatever Shape Our Souls Have Taken On This Journey. Love Is Love. Is Love.

But I Think Humans Are Innately Religious As A Species, So You Don't Need A Specific Excuse For Examining The Perversely Unholy.

One Of The Things I'm Trying To Do Over And Over Again In My Books Is Create New Mythologies, Create New Ways To Understand The Complexity Of The World. I Think What Mythology Does Is Impress Upon Chaotic Experience The Patterns, Hierarchies And Shapes Which Allow Us To Interpret The Chaos And Make Fresh Sense Of It.

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.

It Was As Though In These Last Minutes Together - When They Had So Much To Say - They Could Say Nothing Of The Least Significance, For Fear It Open The Floodgates.