457 Quotes by Clive Barker

You’re being watched too, remember?”“I wasn’t aware—”“That some of the screens you’re looking at are looking at you?”“Yes.”“Well, they are.

The places where death comes to take love away, where we lose each other and lose ourselves; that's where the connections begin. It takes a brave soul to look there and not despair.""I've tried to be brave," she said."I know," he said softly. "I know.

That's half of your trouble," muttered the crocodile. "You believe everything's true.""That's because everything is," replied Mr. Bacchus.

Logic is the last refuge of a coward.

I don't want to see another church; the smell of the places makes me sick. Stale incense, old sweat, and lies..."In the Hills, the Cities

All this talk of necromancy was just a morbid veil drawn over the filthy truth of the matter. Poor Elise! Stuck with a broken-down husband, who knew no better way to please than to give her over to an Englishman for an occasional pleasuring. Of all things, an Englishman! As if the English knew anything about making love.("Haeckel's Tale")

But the strongest scent was also the oldest – it was the perfume of his transgressions. There were other smells, too, some of which she could name – incense, books, sweat – and far, far more that she had no name for.

The presence of phantoms – everywhere – their faces, ripe with need and unspent passion, trailing their hunger like pollen from flowers that were past their hour but refused to wither and disappear.

I begin. I write a draft without ever looking back. Without ever touching what's gone before. Because I think it will be shit, so I daren't look back. I write a draft. I start again. I have the text when I start the second draft and then I do the same thing a third time.- To Linda L. Richards, The January Interview