Time's the thief of memory

I don't want to go to the heaven that I learned about when I was a kid. To me, it seems boring.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.

Terror. When you come home and notice everything you own has been taken away and replaced by an exact substitute. It’s when the lights go out and you feel something behind you-you hear it-you feel its breath against your ear, but when you turn around there’s nothing there.

I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up for me, or that I won't be able to finish it.