I've been typed as a horror writer, and I've always said to people, "I don't care what you call me as long as the checks don't bounce and the family gets fed."

I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.

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

I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

I win, you win. You win, I win. The gun, I win. The fruit, you win. I win, you win.

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.