For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

Drip, drip, the rain comes falling, Rain in the woods, rain on the sea; Even the little waves, beaten, come crawling As if to find shelter here with me.

To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.

I'm very cagey about making friends, and I rarely do.

I'm terrible in the mornings, but I'm always at my desk by 10 A.M.

Sometimes the best gifts are the ones you can't get on your own.

You can let yourself off the hook anytime you want, Liz. That's the divine contract of a little something we call free will.

I don't need somebody behind a desk to tell me what a marketing survey says is funny. I got 3 million miles and 70, 000 tickets sold, telling me that I know how to make people laugh.

If you hang around long enough, they think you're good. It's either my tenacity or my stupidity, I'm not sure which.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself.

Only poor people are weird. Rich people are eccentric.

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

Inner happiness actually is the fuel of success.

It is virtue itself that produces and sustains friendship, not without virtue can friendship by any possibility exist.

A man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company