Some things were better lost than found.

no knowledge obtained without risk

I have no opinion. No, none at all. Opinion is politics, and politics is an evil which has caused many a fellow to be hung while he's still young and pretty.

Story is honorable and trustworthy; plot is shifty, and best kept under house arrest.

...it was more like bleeding than crying.

The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one on one. It has its advantages because the people that are there in the movie theater really are a mob. If you get one guy alone you can do a more efficient job of scaring him.

The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.