An idea is like a cold germ: sooner or later someone always catches it.

A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

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

Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood.

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

Life was such a wheel that no man could stand upon it for long. And it always, at the end, came round to the same place again.