That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

Sometimes it seemed that the human heart, this side of Eden, feared life more than death, light more than darkness, freedom more than surrender.

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

Envy, envy eats them alive. If you had money, they’d envy you that. But since you don’t, they envy you for having such a good, bright, loving daughter. They envy you for just being a happy man. They envy you for not envying them. One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren’t happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.