"We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones."

"The thing under my bed waiting to grab my ankle isn't real. I know that, and I also know that if I'm careful to keep my foot under the covers, it will never be able to grab my ankle."

"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'One word at a time,' and the answer is always true."

"The first duty of a novelist is to entertain. If you don't entertain, then all the deeper stuff is lost."

"We were having tea with my mother-in-law the other day and out of the blue she said, 'I've decided I want to be cremated.' I said, 'Alright, get your coat.'"