Terror. When you come home and notice everything you own has been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you-you hear it-you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around there’s nothing there.

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

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.

Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.

Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live.