I worry about the many things that could happen to the people I love.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

For me, a good friend is someone you might only see once or twice a year but each time it feels as though you've just seen them last week.

Drip, drip, the rain comes falling, Rain in the woods, rain on the sea; Even the little waves, beaten, come crawling As if to find shelter here with me.

To be haunted is to glimpse a truth that might best be hidden.

Never underestimate the hypocrisy of politicians.

I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.

I grew up in the East End of London, the youngest of three boys in a Catholic household. Both my parents were market traders and worked seven days a week.

I'm not into high literature, but I think all my books are literate.

I've actually seen a ghost, so I know they're really around.

I'm very cagey about making friends, and I rarely do.

Determining who the members of your audience are is the most important piece in the business puzzle.

We could hardly believe that after so many ordeals, after all the trials of modern skepticism, there was still so much left in our souls to destroy.

But we were all feeling that bit shagged and fagged and fashed, it having been an evening of some small energy expenditure.

Donald Trump's fought maybe the greatest political machine in the history of the world.

We fell in love quickly. We got married very quickly. It didn't work out the way we wanted it to. There's nothing more to it.

If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.

Ten minutes? That's the women. It's not for the men; not for the real game, mate.

If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.

you will not falter, because you will have the Everlasting Arm of the Lord God of Hosts to lean on. Yes. With God’s help you will stand.

When you choose to focus on today and all the possibilities that lie ahead you automatically release your grip on yesterday. Layers of the past gradually fall away and you are soon set free