“Life was not a reversible commodity. Things passed away, never to return: species, hopes, years.” — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I've never worked where it was hard to be gay. Besides, being gay is a spectacular irrelevance to getting on with your… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
O little one, My little one, Come with me, Your life is done. Forget the future, Forget the past. Life is over:… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Help me', he said, like a lost child. Go to Hell, the room respectfully replied; and for the first time in his… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Is there any good news?' Tesla said. Who ever promised that? Who ever said there'd be good news?” — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
[Horror fiction] shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory, and that every moment we teeter on chaos… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Life is short And pleasures few And holed the ship And drowned the crew But o! But o! How very blue the… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Superman is, after all, an alien life form. He is simply the acceptable face of invading realities. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I'm a gay man, living an out life for a long time, and it's tiring and anger-making to hear people continue to… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“I will say it one last time: Demonation! The feeling of it! There are no words -how can there be?- to describe… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“That's not fair!" "Life's not fair, Kaspar. You know that. You had a slave for — how long?" "Twelve years." "Did you… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“There was little comfort, this voice inside him said, in discovering a mystery at the wellspring of his life so banal his… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I've learned two things in my life. One that love is the beginning and end of all meaning. And two that it… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I want to be able to still surprise myself, even shock myself, whether it be sexual content, whether it be about the… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“To every hour, its mystery. At dawn, the riddles of life and light. At noon, the conundrums of solidity. At three, in… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Abaratians are very much about living in the moment; living life because that's what we've got, we've got today, we've got now,… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Yet the stories moved her. She couldn’t deny it. And they moved her in a way only *true* things could. It wasn’t… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“I’ve spent my creative life so far first in the theatre, then on the page, then on the screen, examining what is… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“Christopher Carrion is me. Christopher Carrion is a man who has had love in his life and that love has not always… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“So quickly? Todd cleared away another wave of tears and looked down at the body on the table. Dempsey’s eye was still… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“This, no doubt, was the call 33 had heard. Bored with his balanced diet of maize and maple peas, tired of the… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
There are lives lived for love, and lives lived for art. We, happy band, have chosen the later persuasion. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I haven't even had a life I could call my own, and you're ready to slot me into the grand design. Well,… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
I've always thought that the most extraordinary special effect you could do is to buy a child at the moment of its birth, sit… — Clive Barker Copy Share
Those old hypocrites. They talk about killing witches but the Good Book’s full of magic. Turning the Nile to blood and parting the Red… — Clive Barker Copy Share
I dreamt a limitless book, A book unbound, Its leaves scattered in fantastic abundance On every line there was a new horizon drawn, New… — Clive Barker Copy Share
“Only when they have outrun the all-too-eager shadows of the Canyon and they are back in the glare of the billboards on Sunset Boulevard,… — Clive Barker Copy Share
“Let us not neglect the forbidden. Let us not sophisticate ourselves out of the cheap thrill and chill of it: the story told for… — Clive Barker Copy Share
“Pleasure is a reward, given to the human system by evolution in return for services rendered to the preservation and increase of the species.” — Clive Barker Copy Share
I love meeting people who've read my books. The prime reason to be on the planet is to make things I can show to… — Clive Barker Copy Share
Nothing happens carelessly. We’re not brought into the world without reason, even though we may never understand the reason. An infant that lives an… — Clive Barker Copy Share
“Despite his intent, tears sprang to his eyes, and he went into her embrace, both of them sobbing freely, like enemies joined by a… — Clive Barker Copy Share
“I'm an inclusionist. I've always divided up (very, very broadly, I admit) the artistic instincts into the inclusionist and the exclusionist. The exclusionist is… — Clive Barker Copy Share
I think I'm less and less labelled a 'horror writer'. The books tend not to go on horror shelves any more, and when they… — Clive Barker Copy Share
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