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."

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

Passion precedes prosperity.

I didn't appear to need anyone: I could do it all myself. I could do everything. I was both halves: did that mean I was whole?

This is a case without a body.The body does not come into it at all.

Betrayal is common for men with no conscience.

Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

I agree that two times two makes four is an excellent thing; but if we are dispensing praise, then two times two makes five is sometimes a most charming little thing as well.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

The etiquette question that troubles so many fastidious people New Year's Day is: How am I ever going to face those people again?

I don't pick stuff up, I knock stuff down!