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.

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.

The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

The rules are very strict.

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.

You know the Prince song where the girl's phone rings but she tells him, "whoever's calling couldn't be as cute as you?" I long to live out this moment in real life.

The best use of family was having it in front of other people.

I threatened to gouge one of his eyes out." Cathy

As an actor, what's interesting is what's hidden away beneath the surface. You want to be like a duck on a pond - very calm on the surface but paddling away like crazy underneath.

True poetry ought to be secret and clandestine, concealed like a prohibited voice of dissent, while at the same time it should speak to everyone.

Some people don't like competition, but competition is fine. It generates new ideas, keeps you alert.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.

Books aren't lumps of paper, but minds on shelves.

Music is one of the most essential things in life. It is what teaches us.