One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.

It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.

Luck's the word those with poor hearts use for ka.

This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.

Money can't buy off the lightning.

Any statement beginning with the words 'In truth' is almost always a lie.

I don't like the idea that I am going to come back as an ant or a sparrow if I don't get along in the great karma of life.