Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines.… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as originality. It has all been said before, suffered before. If a person knows that, is it… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
The moon had risen behind him, the color of a shark's underbelly. It lit the ruined walls, and the skin of his… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful, and before you… — 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
Journey to the end of day, Come the fire-fly, Come the moon; Say a prayer for God's good grace And sleep with… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
My feet are killing me." "I knew somebody who had feet like that. They'd walk all over him. Archie Kashanian was his… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
You can plan to be brave - it's even better if you just try to be brave. — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
