Do you ever rub your eyes and suddenly find you're awake and not asleep, as you'd grown to suspect you were?

I sometimes feel that I'm impersonating the dark unconscious of the whole human race. I know this sounds sick, but I love it.

It's as much fun to scare as to be scared.

In art, religion, and politics the respect must be mutual, no matter how violent the disagreement.

Man has ruled this world as a stumbling demented child king, long enough. And as his empire crumbles, my precious black widow shall rise as his most fitting successor.

I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge.

We exponents of horror do much better than those Method actors. We make the unbelievable believable. More often than not, they make the believable unbelievable.

A man who limits his interests limits his life.

There is nothing more soul-satisfying than the first succulent bite into the juicy frankfurter.

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.

We may all be a peculiar lot...often broke, often dissatisfied because we're not doing more and better work...but we know how to have a ball that makes the rest of the world seem square.

It makes me wonder, Do we spend most of our days trying to remember or forget things? Do we spend most of our time running towards or away from our lives? I don't know.

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure, only death can stop it.

I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.

Civil disobedience is the only nonviolent escape from the soul-destroying heat of violence.

When you fully commit, you will make it.

A credit default swap was confusing mainly because it wasn't really a swap at all. It was an insurance policy, typically on a corporate bond, with semiannual premium payments and a fixed term.

If you play comedic scenes like they're really serious, then it's so much more funny than if you're going for a laugh.

What is love? As far as I can tell, it is passion, admiration and respect. If you have two, you have enough. If you have all three, you don't have to die to go to heaven.

Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission