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

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.

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

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.

Even though I dislike being kicked by others, I do enjoy the feeling of kicking others

Who talks most about freedom and equality? Is it not those who hold the bill of rights in one hand and a whip for affrighted slaves in the other?

Love is an operation theatre, where you find the scalpel and the stitches

Women find it far more difficult to overcome their inclination to coquetry than to overcome their love.

Reputation will become an even more important currency in the future.

You must spend money, if you wish to make money.

The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment.

I worry about another leg down in the economies causing social disruption because deleveragings can be very painful - it depends on how they're managed.

I don't care what ppl say, and when they mumble it. It ain't about my look, it's about what's up under it!

Actions that sometimes seem mean aren’t. Rather they are done by the ones we love in order to protect us without our knowing it. (Acheron)