As a species we're fundamentally insane.

Your first impulse is to share good news, your second is to club someone with it.

When it comes to horror there's a strange need to analyze. When "evil children" fad happened, there was The Exorcist and The Other and The Omen. People would say, "What this really means is that Americans don't want to have kids anymore. They feel hostility towards their own children. They feel they're being tied down and dragged down." In fact, in most cases, what those books are about is nice children who are beset by forces beyond their control.

The dream didn't fade as dreams usually do upon waking.

A person’s never too old for stories. Man and boy, girl and woman, we live for them. - Roland Deschain

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

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.