It was as hysterical as a woman having a hot flash.

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

At nineteen, it seems to me, one has a right to be arrogant; time has usually not begun its stealthy and rotten subtractions. It takes away your hair and your jump-shot, according to a popular country song, but in truth it takes away a lot more than that.

The first movie I can remember seeing was The Creature From The Black Lagoon. And, I can remember hearing a radio play of Ray Bradbury's Mars Is Heaven. And when I cut my teeth on comic books, they were not the easy ones of today like Spiderman, Superman and The Hulk. they were Tales Of The Crypt, The Vaultkeeper, and that sort of thing.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.

Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.