Time can tick when there is no clock.

Don't let the old story repeat itself now. Arm yourself with all that's happened.

The most difficult novel I have had to write in terms of just getting it done was The Vampire Lestat. It took a year to write.

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.

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

I had wanted to say that my song was far too painful to sing.

Very few beings really seek knowledge in this world. Mortal or immortal, few really ASK. On the contrary, they try to wring from the unknown the answers they have already shaped in their own minds.