Feelings are invulnerable to rational thought.

What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.

If anyone ever asks you what panic is, now you can tell them: an emotional blank spot that leaves you feeling as if you've been sucking on a mouthful of pennies.

My feeling of the whole genre, of the terror tale, is this: The best thing that you can do for the readers in this field is to terrify them. It is something that is intellectual, it happens in your mind.