One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.

Often in gothic novels there's a large house, an estate, and it's symbolic of that culture. Usually it's sort of moldering or rotted or something, and sometimes it's a whole community.