Quotes from Peter Straub

what terrible pain—the pain of what I had not done, of what I had lost because I had not done all of that which I had not done. Whatever it was, I had no idea, I knew only that I had not done it.

Charlie Carpenter rang Lily Sheehan's bell, and when she opened the door he gave her a blue rose. This stands for dying, for death. My daddy met the man who grew them, and when the man tried to run away my daddy shot him in the back.

Being seventy-six has a few advantages, one of them being that a premature demise is no longer possible.

However, I think I managed to reach a new level with Koko, and I will always be grateful for the experience.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

Sometimes it is right to fear the dark.