“In Kerry, you’re said to be flamin’; in Waterford, you’re in the horrors; and in Cavan, you’ve gone baloobas, a tough one to wrap your tongue around if you ARE baloobas. In Donegal, you’re steamin’, while the afflicted in Limerick are out of their tree.”

Music can set an atmosphere of worship which invites [the] spirit of revelation, of testimony.

I walked to the lake and sat on the shore for a few minutes, just staring at the moonlight on the water. Moonlight never gets old.

A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so he draws the reader’s eye from its usual groove into a new way of seeing things.

Losers walking around with money in their pockets are always dangerous, not to be trusted. Some horse always reaches out and grabs them.

Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art.

We humans have the capacity to wreak horrors on each other. But we also have the capacity to survive those horrors.

The unspeakable horrors behind each eyes that see you – either admire you or envy you – protect your sanity with prayers.

It’s all there-the boredom, the devotion, the horror and even the humor in an industrial war fought on a global scale that we’ll never see again. Unit histories just do not get any better.

I hope to be on the scene for a long time. I’d love to be old and gray and still be working in this [horror] genre.

In most horror films, you don’t really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

Although I’m up for working in any genre, I do love the passion and dynamic storytelling that horror stories can provide. Dealing with big questions and possibilities of all sorts of stories with life and death consequences is enthralling and exhilarating to me.

The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.

It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates.