1. “Often people who are wonderful with animals aren’t always terribly good with human beings.”
2. “Evil, however powerful it seemed, could be undone by its own appetite.”
3. “I firmly believe that a story is only as good as the villain.”
4. “The thought of making a movie in which the monsters were the good guys was just financial suicide.”
5. “Logic is the last refuge of a coward.”
6. “You can plan to be brave – It’s even better if you just try to be brave.”
7. “Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.”
8. “There is no delight the equal of dread. As long as it’s someone else’s.”
9. “Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we’re opened, we’re red.”
10. “Books should make somebody look at how they feel, be honest with themselves.”
11. “I love the idea of stories being about great beginnings and terrible endings.”
12. “Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.”
13. “We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.”
14. “Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.”
15. “That which is imagined can never be lost.”
