I don't really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don't like to write about the old standard where some rotten guy gets chased by a mean spirit that gets him in the end.I'd rather write about nice people that are menaced from outside by some sort of evil power and who sort of slug it out.

Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.

In many ways, Eulah-Beulah prepared me for literary criticism. After having a two-hundred-pound babysitter fart on your face and yell Pow!, The Village Voice holds few terrors.

Practice is invaluable... honesty is indispensable.

We'll just have to get along. That's what people do, you know? They just get along. And try to help each other.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.