Hey presto: time travel. You don't need a time machine, it turns out, you just need a friend to laugh like a teenager. Chronology shivers.
Disbelief is easy, Kane. It’s faith that takes courage, and character.
He couldn't make the thought go anywhere, and soon zoned out into watching the television screen. It showed a crazy-haired old gent tramping around an undistinguished patch of countryside. He couldn't...
Though we all inhabit the same place during the day, at night each one of us is hurled into a several world.
When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?
Is she dead?" called Zenda.Sort of," I shouted, "And the pizza's completely fucked too.
You still search for Narnia, even though by then you're too old to believe in it and it doesn't want you there.
My father used to claim that inanimate objects hate us and plot our downfall behind our backs. He was probably right.
You have become all the things you have done and thought, and now can’t undo or unthink.
It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go.
You know when you've got nothing in particular to do, nothing to stay awake for? When your life is just routine and it doesn't feel like it belongs to you, how you feel tired and listless and everythi...
When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?I’d do it for free. For the bullshit you are, and have always been.Disbeli...
Humans and stories need each other.
I said this was his story. I didn’t say I believed it. I don’t. You shouldn’t either. That would be best.
Hell is not a place. It’s not a noun, child. It’s a verb.
In your twenties you unquestioningly believe you're writing in pencil, a striking first draft. You do things with such confidence. You know you're so strong, so individual, wholly unique: that you hav...
The Devil waited until he was sure the two policemen were going to keep their side of the bargain. A man called Nietzsche once observed that there is no such thing as moral phenomena, only a moral *in...
Humans and stories need each other. We tell them, but they tell us too – reaching with soft hands and wide arms to pull us into their embrace. They do this especially when we have become mired in live...
And only when that happens do you realise just how much silence there really is. Silence between lovers, when something really needs to be said; silence from a parent when a child needs some word more...
Almost every story in the world has a back door through which the Devil can enter if he so chooses.