Clive Barker

Anyway, it's gone. And there's nothing left in my pocket to charm you. So from now on it's going to have to…

— Clive Barker

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

“Arnie had always called her a dreamer, and maybe he was right about that.”

— Clive Barker

“I can guess what you think about her, and I’d probably be thinking the same thing if I was standing where you…

— Clive Barker

To dream in isolation can be properly splendid to be sure; but to dream in company seems to me infinitely preferable.

— Clive Barker

“Beautiful," Grillo said. "Would Swift approve?" "Fuck Swift." "Somebody should have.”

— Clive Barker

Well, here he was. They could save each other, the way the poets promised lovers should. He was mystery, he was darkness,…

— Clive Barker

“Can you hear me, Todd? There’s an ambulance on its way.” For a moment his eyes opened a little wider, and he…

— Clive Barker

Give me B movies or give me death!

— Clive Barker

“Of all the rash and midnight promises made in the name of love, none, Boone now knew, was more certain to be…

— Clive Barker

His body and his mind went about their different businesses. The former, freed from conscious instruction, breathed, rolled, sweated, and digested. The…

— Clive Barker

I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having…

— Clive Barker

Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the…

— Clive Barker

Evil, however powerful it seemed,could be undone by its own appetite

— Clive Barker

..which should teach you something about this world. That it's a place where whatever you work for and care about is bound…

— Clive Barker

Did I say that she was beautiful? I was wrong. Beauty is too tame a notion; it evokes only faces in magazines.…

— Clive Barker

So we make stories of our own, in fevered and envious imitation of our Maker, hoping that we'll tell, by chance, what…

— Clive Barker

I can see in your eyes that there’s no seam of untapped joy left in you. The best of life has come…

— Clive Barker

My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.

— Clive Barker

You’ve always got me” “Always?” “Didn’t I just say so?” “Yes” “Am I liar? “ “No.” I lied.

— Clive Barker

“Make a fist. Lightly. Leave enough room for a breath to pass through. Good. Good. All magic proceeds from breath. Remember that.”

— Clive Barker

“Decker pulled the mask on. It smelt of his excitement. As soon as he breathed in he got a hard. Not the…

— Clive Barker

Here is a list of terrible things, The jaws of sharks, a vultures wings The rabid bite of the dogs of war,…

— Clive Barker

“However this miraculous place worked, it seemed real enough. The sun was hot, the soda was cold, the sky was blue, the…

— Clive Barker

Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.

— Clive Barker