The brain is a muscle that can move the world.

Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.

That's not such a bad thing,' he said to me. 'In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.

When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off.

Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks

...belief has a second edge. If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one - probably a child - who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home.