There’s always someone who knows something.

It didn´t occur to me until later that there´s another truth, very simple: greed in a good cause is still greed.

I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't touched it, I haven't tried to revise it, I haven't tried to polish it. It's like having a little bit of a runway. The next day when you sit down, you have the comfort of saying, well, I have got a little bit here, used to be in the typewriter. Now it's in the magic box, the computer.

What you don’t know, you can’t tell. Or made to tell.

The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time.

Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You... you fill me up.

My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind.