I was terrified of funerals.

I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.

here, there, and everywhere"-an opinionated riddle.

Editors always want to know what you're working on, what you're thinking about.

You have to be easily scared to know what it's like to be scared.

I wished that the chains would break and the wind would sweep me up, up, up into the sky, beyond the clouds, beyond the sun and the moon, to some marvelous kingdom where no one ever changed and friends were friends for life.

I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.