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

Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one, fulfills a function. Drive it into a crucial place and you can depend on it to do a job, keep on doing it for a hundred years to come. Long after we're dead and gone, both of us.

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

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

Horror is the removal of masks.

Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.

Henderson sighed. There was a time, he reflected, when the coming of this night meant something. A dark Europe, groaning in superstitious fear, dedicated this Eve to the grinning Unknown. A million doors had once been barred against the evil visitants, a million prayers mumbled, a million candles lit. There was something majestic about the idea, Henderson reflected.