Quotes from Stephen Jones

Just because everybody uses language, that doesn't mean that they can write even tolerable prose.

I'm scared of madmen with knives, and perverts hiding in alleys. I'm scared of people, because they're shit. But etheric entities don't frighten me. They don't have hands of flesh and blood. They can't fire a gun. The only way they can hurt you is through fear, your own mind. You must know that.

I think (Robert E.) Howard often wrote with his heart, but not always with his head.

Laura went up to the white house with the neatly trimmed yard and the flowers that grew without care. Its colour like blowing snow. Its colour like heaven. She went inside.

Even a man accused of the worst act of terrorism ever committed in this country - especially such a man - is entitled to the best possible defense. This concept is a cornerstone of our justice system.

We live, if we still do live, in a Sea of Chaos, out of which any fucking monster can evolve.

you could have cut a cube of her tone and dropped it in a glass of scotch to bring it down to exactly the right temperature. A little below, actually.

Art is a requirement for life.

It sometimes seems that her getting into it with Jon is merely judiciously firm parenting, whereas when I do the same thing it's me being oppressive, or uncool, or basically an asshole.

The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water