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 was good and bad, but never wicked.

To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

My greatest sin has always been that I have a wonderful time being myself

I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.