It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along.

Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.

Writing is like sex. The more you think about it, the harder it is to do. It's better not to think about it so much and just let it happen.

The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons.

It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it.

Oh, there were all sorts of things to wonder about, but the truth was simple: here stood this door alone on an endless stretch of beach, and it was for only one of two things: opening or leaving closed.