Doubters will doubt to the end.
I hardly ever read mainstream fiction that deals with life as it is. I like an element of fantasy, something that isn’t quite of the real world.
Acknowledge your good fortune by sharing it.
When people begin to lose hope, there’s bound to be explosions.
Horror movies often work better when we have a stake in the game. The more we care about the characters, the more human they are to us, the more appealing they are to us and the more effective the horror tends to be.
The ghost story movie that scared me the most was The Changeling with George C. Scott. I think that’s sometimes overlooked, but it’s a wonderful piece of work.
The books are always there, just the way you wrote them. The plays often don’t turn out the way you wanted them to because in the theater, you’re always involved with collaborators and they don’t always see the work the way you do.
I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.
It’s a mystery. That’s the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one, it’s mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept, and you have to take it seriously.
Let’s face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
I identify with the characters very closely. At the same time that I’m outside, writing, I’m also inside, experiencing, and it can be very unsettling.
I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.
You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it’s going to happen.
I’m still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.
I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It’s like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress.
In small towns people scent the wind with noses of uncommon keenness.
Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
When you ask me what I’m afraid of, I’d say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn’t scare me as it scared me when I was a child.
I never saw any of my dad’s stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.