Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

I thought The Shining was just absolutely wonderful. Stephen King reaches all kinds of people. In the beginning he was just dismissed out of hand, which was terrible.

I never knew what life was until it ran out in a red gush over any lips, my hands!

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

Believe in angels? Then believe in vampires. Believe in me. There are worse things on earth.

What does it mean to die when you can live until the end of the world?

DO I BELIEVE THAT PEOPLE ARE BASICALLY GOOD? Yes, I do believe that, and I trust Buddhists and Hindus and Moslems to seek the good and to want to live in peace.