I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.

Too often, in novels that are speculative, God is a kind of kryptonite, and that's about all that it is, and it goes back to Dracula, where someone dumps a crucifix in Count Dracula's face, and he pulls away and runs back into his house. That's not religion. That's some kind of juju, like a talisman.

I started after him...and the clown looked back. I saw Its eyes, and all at once I understood who It was." "Who was it, Don?" Harold Gardner asked softly. "It was Derry," Don Hagarty said. "It was this town.

The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination.

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent.