He did it (listened) as the world's most charming and magnetic people do, always asking the right question at the right time, never fidgeting or taking his eyes from the speaker's face, making the other guy feel like the most knowledgeable, brilliant, and intellectually savvy person on the planet.

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

And I guess you judge how well you're doing by how well you sleep at night... and what your dreams are like.

In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts.

The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.