We're all not quite as sane as we pretend to be..

Then she did see it there - just a face, peering through the curtains, hanging in midair like a mask. A head-scarf concealed the hair and the glassy ….

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf..

I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions..

Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one, f….

Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some stron….

People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a small child - I keep it in a jar on….

Henderson sighed. There was a time, he reflected, when the coming of this night meant something. A dark Europe, groaning in superstitious fear, dedic….

Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings..

That's the way girls were--they always laughed. Because they were bitches..

Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk..

Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece..

So I had this problem -- work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer..

I haven't had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister.

A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed..

Horror is the removal of masks..

Mothers sometimes are overly possessive, but not all children allow themselves to be possessed..

The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on..

So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sl….

Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic..

Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him..