True love always happens in a flash.

C-C-Can you get bones in your buh-buh-brain?' Bill asked. This was turning into the most interesting conversation he'd had in weeks.

I think of fear as a survival function, and in the stories that I write, the only thing that I've tried to do is provide people with nightmares which are really safe places to put those fears for a while because you can say afterwards that uh, that, that well it was all just make-believe anyway, so I just took my emotions for a walk.

It was life, often unsatisfying, frequently cruel, usually boring, sometimes beautiful, once in a while exhilarating.

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

I've put men to death-men with supposedly immortal souls-that looked dumber than that mouse

They were trying to run, trying to hide. But the rock would not hide them; the dead tree gave no shelter.