What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance that the first impulse will be to laugh. That's all right. Laugh if you must. Just don't take your eye off what you see, for even in your imagination, here is a creature who can do you damage.

I and everyone else in this world live in what is probably the most difficult times that have ever been. We are facing total thermonuclear destruction; and, if you can make someone believe in a ghost or a demon or a vampire in the face of that, you are doing well. From my own personal point of view, I don't think just blood and guts is enough. At least, it isn't for me. Maybe it will turn someone's stomach; but, I'm not sure that is literature or even entertainment.

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

A man without a sense of purpose, even one whose bank accounts are stuffed with money, is always a small man.

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

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.