The rules are very strict.

Odd, isn't it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day.

I think it's dead bodies that really haunt me.

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

I think Stephen King must be the most terrified person in the universe.

You have to be easily scared to know what it's like to be scared.

I still have this deep-down fear that if I go poking into the bushes I might find a dead body.

From His eternal perspective, it's tolerable to allow our temporary dreams to fall apart.

You can have a less chaotic, simpler life working with what you already have and transforming it into what you really need.

Life is like a game of cards. The hand you are dealt is determinism the way you play it is free will.

I was thought to be 'stuck up.' I wasn't. I was just sure of myself. This is and always has been an unforgivable quality to the unsure.

Hard work never killed a man. Men die of boredom, psychological conflict, and disease. They do not die of hard work.

We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.

When my name started popping up I was quite irritated and a little bit in shock.

I can conceive of nothing worse than a man-governed world -- except a woman-governed world.

President Obama has been clear about the future that the United States seeks... when it comes to the Asia-Pacific, the United States is all in.

Please don't take a turn to negative town.