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There are all sorts of dream interpretations, Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed they served a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.

I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.

So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we ha

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

I do not kill with my gun; He who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father. I kill with my heart.

It hurt, of course, but more often than not the best things do, I've found.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts. Stephen Kin

It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have.

Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

Rightly tired of the pain Ä° hear and feel, boss... where we's comin from or goin to or why... If Ä° could end it, Ä° would. But Ä° can't.

...stupidity is one of the two things we see most clearly in retrospect. The other is missed chances.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

Talent renders the whole idea of rehearsal meaningless; when you find something at which you are talented, you do it (whatever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes are ready to fall out of your head. Even when no one is listening (or reading or watching), every outing is a bravura performanc

Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life.

Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.

Do any of us, except in our dreams, truly expect to be reunited with our hearts' deepest loves, even when they leave us only for minutes, and on the most mundane of errands? No, not at all. Each time they go from our sight we in our secret hearts count them as dead. Having been given so much, we rea

But it's hard for a man to give up all his pleasures, even when they don't pleasure him no more.

Time is a keyhole.... We sometimes bend and peer through it. And the wind we feel on our cheeks when we do--the wind that blows through the keyhole--is the breath of all the living universe.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Any game looks straight if everyone is being cheated at once.

There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.

It's exciting and it's thrilling and it's not particularly threatening, because they're not overtly sexual. A lot of the physical side of it is conveyed in things like the vampire will touch her forearm or run a hand over skin, and she just flushes all hot and cold. And for girls, that's a shorthand

you must not come lightly to the blank page.

Black as night and as beautiful as forever.

Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it.

Yes, I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it ... I have written because it fulfilled me ... I did it for the buzz. I did it for the pure joy of the thing. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.

It's not the pain I'm afraid of; I know about the pain. What I'm afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.

A broken spoon may be a fork in disguise.

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