There will be water if God wills it.

My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind.

Of course they had more chains on him than Scrooge saw on Marley's ghost, but he could have kicked up dickens if he'd wanted. That's a pun, son.

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

Give me just enough information so that I can lie convincingly.

Writing is like being in a dream state or under self-directed hypnosis. It induces a state of recall that - while not perfect - is pretty spooky.