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" Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. "

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" A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power. "

" My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast. "

" Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time. "

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" The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. "

" When I'm working on a novel, I work 70-hour weeks. "

" Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled. "

" One of the things I like enormously about Bob Weinstein is that that he's the only studio head I have ever known who will change his mind and say he was wrong. "

" A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in. "

" I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics. "

" Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love. "

" When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. "

" Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate. "

" The only reason I would write a sequel is if I were struck by an idea that I felt to be equal to the original. Too many sequels diminish the original. "

" Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror. "

" I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before. "

" I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. "

" I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others. "

" I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion. "

" Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish. "

" There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him. "

" I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come. "

" Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. "

" Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. "

" Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie. "

" We are coming out of a century that was taught that one way of looking at the world, that one form of behavior, is as valid as another. The idea of true evil has been blown away. "

" I don't write a quick draft and then revise; instead, I work slowly page by page, revising and polishing. "

" Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine. "

" If someone wrote it and it had a peculiar twist, I've read it. "