Would you like to hear a nice definition of jealousy? It's the feeling that you get when someone you absolutely detest is having a wonderful time wit….

I didn't read The Haunting of Hill House until sometime early in the 1990's..

But a myth, to speak plainly, to me is like a menu in a fancy French restaurant: glamorous, complicated camouflage for a fact you wouldn't otherwise ….

In order for life to have appeared spontaneously on Earth, there first had to be hundreds of millions of protein molecules of the Ninth Configuration….

Every man that ever lived craved perfect happiness, the detective poignantly reflected. But how can we have it when we know we’re going to die? Each ….

I have never read horror, nor do I consider The Exorcist to be such, but rather as a suspenseful supernatural detective story, or paranormal police p….

And the sad truth is that nobody wants me to write comedy. The Exorcist not only ended that career, it expunged all memory of its existence..

Perhaps evil is the crucible of goodness... and perhaps even Satan - Satan, in spite of himself - somehow serves to work out the will of God..

The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological, Damien. And power….

When the filter is weakened by a powerful drug, what we see is not delusion but the truth..

Earth is a homicide victim. We lose our children. There are wars. Disease. And God comes strolling by like a cosmic Billie Burke..

We use concepts like "consciousness"---"mind"---"personality," but we don't really know yet what these things are.' He was shaking his head. 'Not rea….

The terror drifted over georgetown like the sun over a blind mans eyes.

Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this house. And I think---I think the point i….

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of love..

As far as God goes, I _am_ a nonbeliever. Still am. But when it comes to a devil---well, that's something else..

We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to whither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of tha….

From the cab stepped a tall old man. Black raincoat and hat and a battered valise. He paid the driver, then turned and stood motionless, staring at t….

What looked like morning was the beginning of endless night.

God never talks. But the devil keeps advertising, Father. The devil does a lot of commercials..

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.