The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.

Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.

On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?

I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.

Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.

When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.

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.