Some part of me knew from the first that what I wanted was not reality but myth.

Sooner or later everything you thought you'd left behind comes around again. For good or ill, it comes around again.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Working on a new idea is kind of like getting married. Then a new idea comes along and you think, 'Man, I'd really like to go out with her.' But you can't. At least not until the old idea is finished.

The mystery of the universe is not time but size.