A short story is like a kiss in the dark.

and so will the world end, I think, a victim of love rather than hate. For love's ever been the more destructive weapon, sure.

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.

The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.

I had a period where I thought I might not be good enough to publish.

I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.

A little arrogance (or even a lot) isn't such a bad thing, although your mother undoubtedly told you different. Mine did. "Pride goeth before a fall, Stephen", she said... and then I found out - right around the age that is 19 x 2 - that eventually you fall down, anyway.