People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that's sometimes overlooked, but it's a wonderful piece of work.

Outside, a gusty October breeze was combing leaves from the trees and sending them across her backyard in colorful skitters.

In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says.