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"So in that sense, I and my fellow horror writers are absorbing and defusing all your fears and anxieties and insecurities and taking them upon ourselves. We're sitting in the darkness beyond the flickering warmth of your fire, cackling into our caldrons and spitting out spider webs of words, all the time sucking the sickness from your minds and spewing it out into the night."
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"He never thought he was right. The horror of all that had died under his will had become mundane to him. You see, the first horror is the horror itself. The real horror for him was accepting it as necessary."

"There was a muffled pop, the sound of a small pumpkin exploding in a microwave oven.Morris cut the wheel to the left and there was another bump as the Biscayne went back into the parking area. He looked in the mirror and saw that Curtis's head was gone.Well, no. Not exactly. It was there, but all spread out. Mooshed. No loss of talent in that mess. Morrie thought."

"This inhuman place makes human monsters."

"All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain."
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"For me, that emotional payoff is what it's all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school."

"When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing."

"Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all."

"We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long."

"What about reality, you ask? Well, as far as I'm concerned, reality can go take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut. I've never held much of a brief for reality, at least in my written work. All too often it is to the imagination what ash stakes are to vampires."

"Twas something else. I had come to hate her, you see. I had come to wish her dead, and that was what held me back."
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