Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.
God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?
I've never seen novels as built things. I have a tendency to see them as found things so that I always feel a little bit like an archaeologist who's working to get some fragile fossil out of the ground. And the more you get out unbroken, the better you succeed.
I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.
By and large... the good's an illusion, little fables folks tell themselves so they can get through their days without screaming too much.
But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.
Like the man said, a little hope never hurt anybody
It's only a little secret, but having a secret makes me feel better. Like a human being again.
It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have.
That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.
We're all going to die; I'm just trying to make it a little more interesting.
Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.
If you can't laugh when things go bad--laugh and put on a little carnival--then you're either dead or wishing you were.
The first movie I ever saw was a horror movie. It was Bambi. When that little deer gets caught in a forest fire, I was terrified, but I was also exhilarated.
Little by little, writers develop their own styles, each as unique as a fingerprint.
I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.