The writer's original perception of a character or characters may be as erroneous as the reader's.

Cut him. Cut him while I stand here and watch. I want to see the blood flow. Don't make me tell you twice.

She ran out of her marriage the way a woman can run out of a pair of sandals when she decides to let go and really dash.

Belief in the supernatural or belief in wild talents like precognition and telepathy and telekinesis and things like that, it seems to me that belief in those things is just very, very freeing.

It is the tale, not he who tells it.

And the most terrifying question of all may be just how much horror the human mind can stand and still maintain a wakeful, staring, unrelenting sanity.

Because things like this you can only ssay once. And you either get it wrong or right, it's the end either way, because it's too hard to ever try to say again.