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“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.”
― Stephen King

“Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different style.”
― R.L. Stine

“But mostly it's about pacing yourself when you do these movies.”
― Robert Englund

“If they do something like that, maybe a Freddy Krueger fan, a girl, a really sick goth girl starts killing kids herself and Freddy has to put a stop to it, or they have to fight it out.”
― Robert Englund

“Fear has been good to yours truly.”
― Robert Englund

“I have a huge passion for literature.”
― Emily Perkins

“I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have a pretty good sense of comic thing, so I'd really like to try that.”
― Emily Perkins

“I think you have to have a sense of humor about every movie that you're doing. Your character needs to be relatable in a way that, even when you're doing the most bizarre things, sometimes a bit of tongue in cheek is necessary to keep up the believability of it.”
― Katherine Isabelle

“Sometimes...you can cry until there's nothing wet in you. You can scream and curse to where your throat rebels and ruptures. You can pray, all you want, to whatever god you think will listen. And, still it makes no difference. It goes on, with no sign as to when it might release you. And you know that if it ever did relent...it would not be because it cared.”
― Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut

“My delusionary hell does not agree with yours.”
― Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut

“Nothing quite brings out the zest for life in a person like the thought of their impending death”
― Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut

“Dear Die-ary, there's nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their "discomfort" like a favorite shirt. I can't say I'm very pleased with where my life is just now... but I can't help but look forward to where it's going.”
― Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut

“The numbing mind-ream of knowing you're alone not because people won't accept you but because you find so little worth accepting. An imposed solitude is better than simply tolerating your company in waiting for something better. So loneliness is not such a terrible thing when you consider that the alternative to thought provoking solace is to be surrounded only by remindings of why that solitude is preferable.”
― Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny The Homicidal Maniac #2

“I don't do my work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up my life. ”
― Jhonen Vasquez

“It's a frightening world to be alone in.”
― Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut

“Whether in a suit or in a loincloth people are ignorant little thorns cutting into one another. They seem incapable of advancing beyond the violent tendencies which at one time were necessary for survival.”
― Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut

“Trust me, I know what self loathing is. But to kill myself? That would put a damper on my search for answers. Not at all productive. Besides, I've become increasingly doubtful as to whether I can die at all. But let's not get into that.”
― Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut

“I think there is something a little too self conscious about enjoying being an outsider. ”
― Jhonen Vasquez

“I happen to have a certain fondness for existing--soda wouldn't have that lovely fizzy feeling if you were dead. Think of all the things you would miss: Cartoons, music, movies, video games, music, art, fingernail growth, sex...well, perhaps not sex, depending on how weird your mortician is.”
― Jhonen Vasquez

“Any pile of stunted growth unaware that entertainment is just that and nothing more deserves to doom themselves to some dank cell somewhere for having been so stupid!! Movies, books, T.V., music - they're all just entertainment, not guidebooks for damning yourself!”
― Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut

“Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.”
― Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut

“I've excluded happiness as one of those possibilities we seek for ourselves. Oh, I still want it, but that's beside the point. Contentment - they say it's the ultimate, but I can't even wish for that. I don't even want the desire to be content. I can only hope for silence.”
― Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut

“And so, irritants, it is with this that I leave you. You are spared so that you can think of what it really is to live in a world that engenders a pain for which there is no comfort. Here is your product! You have the rest of your lives to think of this. And I suggest you think quickly, for a long life is never a guarantee.”
― Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac: Director's Cut

“Well, I just don’t want you to think that this piece of shit is anything other than a pathetic, human defect. Nothing more. Not a monster, not a bogeyman. Nothing but another reason to feel better about yourself. Understand that it’s just a person - not worth devoting any nightmares to.”
― Jhonen Vasquez, JTHM: Director's Cut (Johnny the Homicidal Maniac) JTHM: Director's Cut

“This is heaven. You can stop praying now.”
― Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac #6

“I don't kill people.
Perhaps it's just another inhibition to do away with it. Perhaps not. There's really no way of telling. It's possible I've just never been able to well up enough interest in any person to care long enough to end their life. I'd much rather avoid them altogether. Most of them. It's 4 A.M. and the sky is beautiful up and away from this room and this bed and the oppressive inevitability of sleep. I HATE SLEEP. But sleep always comes (that, or madness).”
― Jhonen Vasquez

“How is it you're so beautiful and so fucking ugly inside!

You know it wouldn't take much to make your outside look like your inside!!

I could just chop your brain out!

It doesn't deserve such a pretty body...”
― Jhonen Vasquez, Johnny The Homicidal Maniac #1

“My problem is that the human race seems to want to be destroyed!”
― Jhonen Vasquez

“I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines.”
― Jhonen Vasquez