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"Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as 'good' and other sorts as 'bad' is fearful behavior."
"It's alright to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it."
"I saw something even more beautiful than a sense of humor: an appreciation for life’s essential absurdity."
"A man who can't bear to share his habits is a man who needs to quit them."
"The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one on one. It has its advantages because the people that are there in the movie theater really are a mob. If you get one guy alone you can do a more efficient job of scaring him."
"If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb."
"Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?"
"On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time."
"Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks"
"Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve."
"What is writing? Writing is telepathy."
"They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food."
"Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on."
"The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically I don't think I was so different from a lot of dads who have three or four martinis when they get in from work, wine with dinner and so on."
"What's been tried once had been tried once before... and before... and before..."
"Death was no less a miracle than birth."
"Memory is the basis of every journey."
"Good books are for consideration after, too."
"I’m so afraid that all I can reach will lead me to all I dare not see."
"To me, the greatest thing in the world is downloading TV shows on iTunes because there are no commercials, and yet if I were a working stiff, I could never afford to do this. But I don't even think about money."