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.

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

I was terrified of funerals.

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

Odd, isn't it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day.

I still have this deep-down fear that if I go poking into the bushes I might find a dead body.

I think it's dead bodies that really haunt me.