Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

You pay for what you get, you own what you pay for... and sooner or later whatever you own comes back home to you.

Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.

Kill you all!" The clown was laughing and screaming. "Try to stop me and I'll kill you all! Drive you crazy and then kill you all! You can't stop me!

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

My heart's with you, Bill, no matter how it turns out. My heart is with all of them, and I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

Some stuff has to be done even if there is a risk. That's the first important thing I ever found out I didn't find out from my mother

The most important things are the hardest things to say, because words diminish them...

I think that, even if we forget each other, we'll remember in our dreams.

Wisdom is found in the heart not the head.

You can do very little with faith but you can do nothing without it.

There is a certain impertinence in allowing oneself to be burned for an opinion.

What matters most is what sort of person you are becoming. Wise individuals care only about whom they are today and who they can be tomorrow.

I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the Weird slot.

As a writer who writes poetry, nonfiction, and fiction, I think it's important to always maintain a firm grasp on genre and ethics.

I, like most women, I dress for other women, I think. If I was going to dress for men, I think in general I would be just wearing, like, a fitted black T-shirt and tight jeans every day.

Jazz is the favorite music [of America]. It is a type of music invented by [American] Blacks to please their primitive tendencies and desire for noise.

In my hands the means... In my heart the will.