There are a lot of people in the field [ of horror stories] that I do read. There is a lot of stuff that is written in this field, though, that is not very good. You just have to look for the good stuff.

And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must go nuts. I can’t imagine that.

The King is in his Tower, eating bread and honey. The Breakers in the basement, making all the money.

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway... You must be prepared to do some serious turning inward toward the life of the imagination, and that means, I'm afraid, that Geraldo, Keith Obermann, and Jay Leno must go. Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.

People with a high tolerance for boredom can get a lot of thinking done.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.