The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

Put an egg in your shoe and beat it, make like a tree and leave, imitate an amoeba and split.

Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.

I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.

His name is Legion. He is the king of nowhere.

As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.