Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.

When the time is gone, you can never get it back.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.