If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.

We live in a society now where the sexual taboo for children has really passed by the wayside. Any nineyear-old can go into a 7-11 and check out the Playmate of the Month, but you don't want your kids to know about death. You don't want your kids to know about disfigurement. You don't want 'em to know about creepy things because it might warp their little minds.

Good books are for consideration after, too.

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

The battle between good and evil is endlessly fascinating because we are participants every day.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

and then woe is you, Pauly. Woe to the max.