Anything with the power to make you laugh over thirty years later isn’t a waste of time. I think something like that is very close to immortality.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

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

I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there.

Of course when you were running with the bottom dogs, what you mostly saw were paws, claws, and assholes.

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.

When you own a piano, it's harder to think about moving.