There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.

In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.

A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.

If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.

The horror genre is an extremely delicate thing. You can talk to filmmakers and even psychologists who've studied the genre, and even they don't understand what works or what doesn't work. More importantly, they don't understand why it works when it works.

A writer's notebook is the best way in the world to immortalize bad ideas. My idea about a good idea is one that sticks around and sticks around and sticks around.