"Yet I am the gateway, and I am that last of the Boone blood. For the good of all humanity I must die...and break the chain forever." "Jerusalem's Lot," pg. 34

"After the guy was dead and the smell of his burning flesh was off the air, we all went back down to the beach." "Night Surf," pg. 54

"There were eyes peering up at me through splits in the flesh of my fingers. And even as I watched the flesh was dilating, retreating, as they pushed their mindless way up to the surface.
But that was not what made me scream. I had looked into my own face and seen a monster."
"I Am the Doorway," pg. 70

"The machine was still running. No one had shut it off. The machine he later came to know intimately: the Hadley-Watson Model-6 Ironer and Folder. A long and clumsy name. The...