Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.

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

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

Funny how we take it for granted that we know all there is to know about another person, just because we see them frequently or because of some strong emotional tie.

Horror is the removal of masks.

Sure God created man before woman, but then again you always make a rough draft before creating the final masterpiece.

So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.

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

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

People hear that I am a horror writer and they think that I must be a monster, but actually I have the heart of a small child - I keep it in a jar on my desk.

Everything in this business makes sense, because it serves a real purpose, fills a need that's a part of living. Even a single nail, like this one, fulfills a function. Drive it into a crucial place and you can depend on it to do a job, keep on doing it for a hundred years to come. Long after we're dead and gone, both of us.

I haven't had this much fun since the rats ate my baby sister

Norman Bates heard the noise and a shock went through him.