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

Inaction counted as a choice.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go the library from a very young age and get the books out.

Not all or even most suffering is at the hands of fate; it befalls us at our invitation.

Atlas isn't carrying the world on his shoulders, no giant muscular hulk with a sense of responsibility; the world is balanced on a pyramid of clowns, and they are always tooting horns and wobbling and goosing each other.

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.