“I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone...” — John Hawkes Quote

I don't think there are in life, pure darkness or pure light. Everyone's got a little of everything.

It's hard to get concert tickets.

It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

People have said unkind things and you kind of have to, if you happen to read it, you have to just, you know, move on.

I'm interested in people's darkness - and humor in the darkness.

I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

A work will only have deep resonance if the kind of darkness I can generate is something that is resident in me already.

I think that Poe is so resonant because he represents that part of us that is in misery or sorrowful or wants to explore the darkness. He wrote a great story called 'The Imp of the Perverse' about the instinct towards self-destruction. Poe is the godfather of Goth literature and that whole movement.