Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.

Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.

The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be exercised in a disciplined way, day in and day out, by writing, failing, succeeding and revising.

Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.

Mister, we deal in lead.

Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids... on my desk in little jars!

The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.