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

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular way.

I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned.

The family exists for many reasons, but its most basic function may be to draw together after a member dies.

I drink a lot of beer, and that's the drug of choice. You find the drug that works for you. I know, for instance, this guy named Harlan Ellison - and he's not alone - who's very proud of the fact that he doesn't put dope into his body. He tries not to put additives into his body, or anything like that. But he can afford to do that because Harlan's drug of choice is Harlan.

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.