In a crunch a man's reputation never counts for as much as it ought to.

Doubt is poison. It leads to a loss of faith in yourself, and in all that's good and true.

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

When it came to formal classes, I was a slacker. But I've always been a diligent autodidact and can teach myself virtually any subject if I have a serious interest in it.

Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct.

Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire planet-had no choice but to grow away from the tradition of savagery.

In a world that daily disconnects further from truth, more and more people accept the virtual in place of the real, and all things virtual are also malleable.