It’s my opinion that only in times of utter depression or lofty peace is it appropriate to be creative.

Edgar Allan Poe’s writings showed me perfectly that there can be such fragile beauty and purity located in darkness and sorrow.

In my own book-signings, I find humility. It’s always humbling when people go out of their way to come visit with me and by some of my books.

Give me a bottle of hard cider, a bowl of Peterson Irish Oak in my Neerup pipe, and please, above all, give my Henry David Thoreau’s Wild Apples. Do that and you will see a man contented.

The language of love is the only language understood but not spoken the world over.

When life throws you a curve ball, have a good eye.

Be not deceived God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap.

If work is so terrific, how come they have to pay you to do it?

Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away.

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

Matt and Mark (Hughes) used to pound each other on the farm as young boys.

As someone with a novelistic background, I just didn't have much interest in creating stories by committee. I don't think you necessarily get the best story through that approach.

We must not discriminate between things. Where things are concerned there are no class distinctions. We must pick out what is good for us where we can find it.

Your country requires heroes; be heroes; your duty is to go on working, and then everything will follow of itself.