"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
— Douglas Adams

"When I think of Simone now, I think of butterfly wings. Beautiful and excruciatingly delicate. Touch them once and they might disintegrate."
— Nick Sagan (Idlewild)

"[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos and oblivion."
— Clive Barker

"Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red."
— Clive Barker (Books of Blood 1-3)

"Nothing ever begins.
There is no first moment; no single word or place from which this or any story springs.
The threads can always be traced back to some earlier tale, and the tales that preceded that; though as the narrator's voice recedes the connections will seem to grow more tenuous, for each age will want the tale told as if it were of its own making."
— Clive Barker (Weaveworld)

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. "
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

"Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"
— Chuck Palahniuk (Invisible Monsters)

"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti"
— Thomas Harris (The Silence of the Lambs)