“The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.”
“Thus she's discovered the Conradian truth: The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it...You do what you do because it's that or death.”
“The horror! The horror!”
“But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.”
“I think horror can and should be classy. I enjoy seeing it raised up not lowered down to the lowest common denominator. There's prejudice against the horror genre and I think sometimes that's the fault of the authors involved.”
“Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.”