“It is great good health to believe as the Hindus do that there are 33 million gods and goddesses in the world. It is great good health to want to understand one s dreams. It is great good health to desire the ambiguous and paradoxical. It is sickness of the profoundest kind to believe that there is one reality. There is sickness in any piece of work or any piece of art seriously attempting to suggest that the idea that there is more than one reality is somehow redundant.”

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

“Three is the number of those who do holy work;Two is the number of those who do lover's work;One is the number of those who do perfect evilOr perfect good.”

“Is there any good news?' Tesla said.Who ever promised that? Who ever said there'd be good news?”

“What we want to believe and what is true are, I think, more closely related than the Rationalists would sometimes have us believe.”

“Memory, prophecy, and fantasy—The past, the future, andThe dreaming moment between—Are all in one country,Living one immortal day.To know that is Wisdom.To use it is the Art.”

“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.”