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" Vladimir Nabokov said the two great evils of the 20th century were Marx and Freud. He was absolutely correct. "

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" What we do as a society is seek simple answers. "

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

" 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. "

" 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 think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well. "

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

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

" I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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" I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement. "

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

" If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored. "

" Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text. "

" Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him. "

" I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive. "

" 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. "

" If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people. "

" When tempest tossed, embrace chaos. "

" Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages. "