Quotes

I was always so badly frightened as a child, so I thought: "If you can't lick 'em, join em."

I've been told that science fiction writers are a family. If so, then I'm an illegitimate son.

Comedy and horror are opposite sides of the same coin.

I discovered, much to my surprise - and particularly if I was writing in the first person - that I could become a psychopath quite easily. I could think like one and I could devise a manner of unfortunate occurrences. So I probably gave up a flourishing, lucrative career as a mass murderer.

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

I haven't had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister. (at an award ceremony in 1977)

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

I think perhaps all of us go a little crazy at times.

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

Horror is the removal of masks.

Behind Robert E. Howard's stories lurks a dark poetry and the timeless truth of dreams.