Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there.

It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have.

I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.

To the devil with false modesty.