A perfectly evil Devil makes even less sense than a perfect God.

Phil was mumbling that Reuben might become a writer after all and writers had a way of "redeeming everything that ever happens to them.

I picture heaven as a vast library, with unlimited volumes to read. And paintings and statues to examine galore. I picture it as a great doorway to learning...rather than one great dull answer to all our questions

Sometimes dreams show me that my writing should go deeper. Dreams have not so much changed my work as deepened it.

I can't keep up with Stephen King's output.

My own funeral, I'd like to be laid out in a coffin in my own house. I would like my coffin to be put in the double parlor, and I would like all the flowers to be white.

A perfect world or a world destroyed, one or the other- someday will come the end of hell.