Ian

“He saw in happiness the seeds of independence, and in independence the seeds of revolt.”
― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

“I suppose it was a mistake to sketch in a background for the movie, in which I described a likely mix of people in a late-Roman settlement, amongst them people from Africa and the Near East. 'You mean they had black people back then!' was actually what my boss exclaimed when he read that. 'Could Lancelot's sidekick be black?”
― Michael Moorcock, Letters From Hollywood

“It was not certain what significance the ceremony held... but the formality was no less sacred for it being unintelligible”
― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

“His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.”
― Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman