The shuddering would not stop. The pain was like the end of the world. He thought: There comes a point when the very discussion of pain becomes redundant. No one knows there is pain the size of this in the world. No one. It is like being possessed by demons.

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.

Ka was a wheel; it was also a net from which none ever escaped.

I don't have anything against either of the Dead movies, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, none of those movies. If it scares somebody, I think that it is serving a valid purpose. It is doing what the filmmaker intended. But, it is not something that you hand to kids.

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

Your Plan and the stuff that comes out of my asshole bear a suspicious resemblance to each other.

In the end we always wear out our worries. That’s what Wireman says.