'The Sundial' is written with the kind of humor that would make a guillotine laugh.

I’m always looking for the monster. Not even just in horror. I want them in everything. Just give me the monsters. Logical conclusions don’t satisfy. Monsters satisfy, absolutely.

Empathy is what separates human beings from teenage boys.

There are really only two ways to react to the extraordinary. The first is to ponder the grand purpose until all the fun is sucked away, the second is to enjoy it.

A little style is a good thing, but you can’t trust a person who won’t be ugly in front of you.

The best writing deadlines are poverty and death.

People who move to New York always the same mistake. They can't see the place.

Doubt is the big machine. It grinds up the delusions of women and men.

I have my teachers who tell me what to do. I'm not quite old enough yet to be truly independent.

Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.

The poor aren't defeated. We're domesticated.

Let it be then let it go.

Is that not the Promethean fable, that the fire stolen from the gods will light men their way even while it burns their hands?

The great business of life is to be to do to do without and to depart.

I think it's really important to design things with a kind of personality.

Self-appraisals are influenced by evaluative reactions of others.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.

If you're not settled spiritually, things can be a little bit more chaotic than normal.

Horror movies are hard work. Why don't we make a horror workout?

Man's strength is but little, and futile his concerns.