I hate it when something I've had published "inspires" some nut to imitate what I've written, or some teacher gets fired for having her students read one of my stories or novels.

Thank you...for gracing my life with your lovely presence, for adding the sweet measure of your soul to my existence.

Full circle. A new terror born in death, a new superstition entering the unassailable fortress of forever. I am legend.

In a world of monotonous horror there could be no salvation in wild dreaming.

How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it enough.

To me there is nothing that goes against nature. If it seems incomprehensible, its only because we havent been able to understand it yet.

That which you believe becomes your world

Normalcy was a majority concept, the standard of many and not the standard of just one man.

What would a Mohammedan vampire do if faced with a cross?

All of us have a path to follow and the path begins on earth.

I hope people are reading my work in the future. I hope I have done more than frightened a couple of generations. I hope I've inspired a few people one way or another.

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.

Manners are not idle, but the fruit of loyal and of noble mind.

In our imaginations we can go anywhere. Travel with me to Redwall in Mossflower country.

I don't believe space exists. You're not gonna put a camera on a roomba, stick it in the desert, and tell me it's Mars.

Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it.

The greater the stupidity, the greater the clarity. Stupidity is brief and guileless, while wit equivocates and hides. Wit is a scoundrel, while stupidity is honest and sincere.

I'm just an average Canadian kid playing hockey.

That is what always happens: we never know whether we are victors or whether we are defeated.

I came out of the closet very young, and I had to cut my teeth pretty fast.