I think What Dreams May Come is the most important (read effective) book I've written. It has caused a number of readers to lose their fear of death the finest tribute any writer could receive. ... Somewhere In Time is my favorite novel.

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.

To get married and have a family, is to grow up and mature. It's the only way. You can read philosophy books for a hundred years, but if you don't get married and have a family you will never get it. They soften you and shape you, mature you. Absolutely.

The vampire was real. It was only that his true story had never been told.

Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

A surfeiting of terror soon made terror a cliché.

He stood there for a moment looking around the silent room, shaking his head slowly. All these books, he thought, the residue of a planet’s intellect, the scrapings of futile minds, the leftovers, the potpourri of artifacts that had no power to save men from perishing.