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

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

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.

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

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.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

If you let people break your spirit and detour you from your path, then you have not been true to yourself or those you're here to touch, those who believe in you.

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

When you have to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there's either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world. And there's nothing wrong with my skills.

Know thyself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

It’s not information overload. It’s filter failure.

I don't believe in writer's block. I don't know what that is. There are just certain little areas that I know I'm going to get through. It's just a matter of finding a way.

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; [but] a creed is always sensitive.

The sage embraces the one, and is an example to the world.

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.