Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.

Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease.

Any writer of horror needs to at least have a good, solid love of the genre. Also, good horror writers need to have a slightly twisted sense of humor. Without humor, horror just isn’t as good.

And I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to fight? Who wants the first bloody nose?

He had to fight. That's all he had. Not memories, not experiences, not skills. He had a will. And his will was to fight until he couldn't fight anymore.

You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

When I deeply look at a pious, I see no affection but fear; and when I look at an atheist, I see no fear but conceit!

I just want to go to university and have fun - I want to be an ordinary student. I'm only going to university. It's not like I'm getting married - though that's what it feels like sometimes.

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

It's also ironic that in the old days of tape and tape hiss and vinyl records and surface noise, we were always trying to get records louder and louder to overcome that.