I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions.

Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.

So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.

We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be.

So I had this problem -- work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.

I haven't had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister