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I've gone through hell and back.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.

You live in this shadow that you're going to burn in Hell until you're saved. And I still worry about it a little. I don't believe in Heaven, but I do still fear Hell.

My world view is that it can all go to hell in an instant, and you have to be ready for it. That's pretty much the central theme running through my work. It's about people's awareness of how uncertain life can be and their trying to guard against that.

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.

Life is lived on the edge.

The closest thing to hell on earth is prison. It's the worst experience I've ever had in my life. Besides death.

If I believed in Hell, I'd definitely be going there.