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.

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of malignant life. I worked in a laundry for about a year and a half after I got out of college. It was the only job I could find to support my wife and our first child. There was a fellow there that had no hands or forearms. He simply had hooks. This is one of the things that they don't tell you about when you become management. You have to wear a tie. It was this fellow's tie that did him in.

Her body was wrapped in shadows like moth wings, like rose-petals.

You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.

I've killed enough of the world's trees.

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.