I haven't shoplifted since I was 13.

You can say anything if enough people will listen.

I like to get people moving and jumping. I think it's good to add more emotion and chaos.

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

May I never be complete. May I never be content. May I never be perfect.

In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.

You spend your entire life becoming God and then you die.