I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.

There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.

As a rule, I don't worry about genre. I just want to tell a good story, with characters that interest me and my readers.

we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.