Nobody likes to see a stupid guy wise up.

Nora Roberts is cool.

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.

I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity.

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.

For," I said, "a murdered man or woman dies not in God's time, but in Man's. He... or she... is cut short before he... or she... can atone for sin, and so all errors must be forgiven. When you think of it that way, all murderers are a gateway for heaven.