Peter Straub Quotes

“Intellectual labor is a common technique for the avoidance of thinking.”
― Peter Straub, If You Could See Me Now

“I have been sometimes way too attracted by my own villains because in a way they seem to hold the secret to the heart of the narrative.”
― Peter Straub

“I had this dream in which I was having a cocktail party, and it was in a big room. I was standing at the door saying hello to people, and Jeffrey Dahmer walks up and I say, ‘Oh Jeffrey, please go on in, it’s right in there.' And then I say to myself, I just put Jeffrey Dahmer in a room with all my friends.”
― Peter Straub

“Nothing is whole, not for too damned long. The world is half night.”
― Peter Straub, Mystery