Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.

We all have a tendency to want order in our lives. But order presupposes authority, and authority presupposes, sooner or later, that we'll all need hooves. It's going to happen sooner or later, isn't it? You know it is.

This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.

Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him.

...you need openness and inability to do anything other than get to the point.