All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.

How does anybody ever think of anything?

The most terrifying fact about the universe not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. If it can be written or thought, it can be filmed.

In his essay on the uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud said that the uncanny is the only feeling which is more powerfully experienced in art than in life. If the horror genre required any justification, I should think this alone would serve as its credentials.

Suppose by chance you do get picked up. What have you done? You shot a horse; that isn't first degree murder; in fact, it isn't even murder; in fact, I don't know what it is.

The world's religions, for all their parochialism, did supply a kind of consolation for this great ache. This shattering recognition of our mortality is at the root of far more mental illness than I suspect even psychiatrists are aware.