Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.

Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned.

A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are.

Life turns on a dime.

We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.

Writing is like being in a dream state or under self-directed hypnosis. It induces a state of recall that - while not perfect - is pretty spooky.