Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.
Stephen KingWe sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.
Stephen KingThe good folks mostly win, courage usually triumphs over fear, the family dog hardly ever contracts rabies: these are things I knew at twenty-five, and things I still know now, at the age of 25 x 2. But I know something else as well: there's a place in most of us where the rain is pretty much constant, the shadows are always long, and the woods are full of monsters. It is good to have a voice in which the terrors of such a place can be articulated and its geography partially described, without denying the sunshine and clarity that fill so much of our ordinary lives. (viii)
Stephen King