It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep.

Language does not always have to wear a tie and lace-up shoes.

Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me

I've given up thinking - it keeps getting me into trouble.

If you wrote something for which someone sent you a check, if you cashed the check and it didn't bounce, and if you then paid the light bill with the money, I consider you talented.

And that almost killed you?" "It wasn't deep but it got infected. Infection means that the bad germs got into it. Infection's the most dangerous thing there is, Tom. Infection was what made the superflu germ kill all the people. And infection is what made people want to make the germ in the first place. An infection of the mind.

I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.