"This paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop."

"I think the British have a sense of humor, especially about the macabre."

"Casting is characterization."

"I'm interested in the effect of fear on people."

"We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed…"