Victor LaValle Quotes

I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.

I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

What is it about a zombie that appeals to me? I don't know. Maybe that it's just the most possible - I don't know - of all the supernatural entities.

Monsters are a storytelling tool, like domestic realism and close third.

All I want to be is normally insane.

Horror is my motor. It gets to me on an animal level and satisfies my impulse toward scenario building.

If the sleep of reason produces monsters, what does the sleep of unreason produce?

Amazed, Fat said, "She's decomposing and yet she's still giving birth?" "Only to monsters," Dr. Stone said.

Monsters are the result of the sleep of reason.

There is no greater monster than reason.

Too much sanity may be madness!

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

I don't know what it is about accents that makes me want to get undressed and high-five myself.

Life [had] replaced logic.

If you want to be true to life, start lying about it

The Cha-Cha is no more ridiculous than life itself.

We give people way too much credit. People just get crazy.

in nonsense is strength

If you want something then you lose everything. If you don’t want anything then you already have everything.

Certainly, possessions, money, and power can give a momentary thrill, the illusion of being happy, but they end up possessing us and making us always want to have more, never satisfied. ‘Put on Christ’ in your life, place your trust in him, and you will never be disappointed!

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

...it is easy not to believe in monsters, considerably more difficult to escape their dread and loathsome clutches.

The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

the beast is the monster that destroys your dream