It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.

It's actually against my religion to laugh at men who are toting guns.

Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.

Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder.