I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

Odd, isn't it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day.

I think it's dead bodies that really haunt me.

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

The rules are very strict.

I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.

I think Stephen King must be the most terrified person in the universe.

You have to be easily scared to know what it's like to be scared.

I still have this deep-down fear that if I go poking into the bushes I might find a dead body.

It's not easy, it's just better.

Life is a service. What you will do lies in your soul.

Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

We're led by denial like lambs to slaughter, serving empires of style and carbonated sugar water.

The infernal flag-waving after 9/11 nearly drove liberals out of their gourds. For the left, 'flag-waving' is an epithet.

I have learned that if you fear God, you have no one else to fear.

A life in harmony with nature, the love of truth and virtue, will purge the eyes to understanding her text.

I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.

The essence of poetry is invention; such invention as, by producing something unexpected, surprises and delights.

What regresses, never progresses.