The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.

A scary movie puts a lot of people, a mob, in one place. There are advantages to that because the panic runs through the audience. If it's a good movie, the fear jumps from one person to the next. You can find yourself screaming just because everybody around you is screaming. There's a real atmosphere of terror. It's also visual, which means that you can't look away from this thing - it's happening. You're in the dark. It's like a nightmare. It's like a dream. It's very, very visual. It works on all those levels.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.

In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.

All Thing Serve the Beam

Books are a uniquely portable magic.