When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.

I was being paid to do what I loved, and there's no gig on earth better than that; it's like a license to steal.

And I believe happiness is the exact opposite of sadness, bitterness, and hatred: happiness should remain unexamined as long as possible.

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.

Crying was like pissing everything out on the ground.

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window.

Your job isn't to find these ideas but to recognize them when they show up.