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

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

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.

There are many things in science that were developed because it was possible rather than desirable. Humanity's curiosity will almost certainly be its downfall.

All I need is you even though I don't know if I can have you.

He was a silly guy. Out - do the other guy. That was his effort at all times.

Slowly I came to know that the depth of our heartbreaks determines the depth of our faith. God gives us everything to conquer the big and the little hurts of life.

We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.

When a leader reaches out in passion, he is usually met with an answering passion.

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

The more elaborate our means of our common sense is, the less the common sense it becomes.

When I was five I had violin lessons.

...we must support and protect individuals and companies engaged in life saving medical research