457 Quotes by Clive Barker

She's...just a girl, you know. Like most girls: something and nothing.

What worth was a man who could not be haunted?

Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you have to create after some preordained model. You don't have to write like myself, or King or Anne Rice: be yourself. Nothing is more wonderful than discovering a new voice, particularly if it happens to be your own.

True joy is a profound remembering; and true grief the same.

…there’s nothing in the world more fun than doing something you’re good at.

Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the bonding-a physical horror that bonds us ever tighter to all those who have partaken. The intensity of the experience helps to widen the gulf between us and those who have not shared.

Always, worlds within worlds.

Words are sexier than flesh.

Let the mad find wisdom in their madness for the sane, and let the sane be grateful.