Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin.

When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

Whether a party can have much success without a woman present I must ask others to decide, but one thing is certain, no party is any fun unless seasoned with folly.

Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.

For those who seek to understand it, death is a highly creative force. The highest spiritual values of life can originate from the thought and study of death.

When I did 'Bumble-ardy,' I was so intensely aware of death. Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did 'Bumble-ardy'. I did 'Bumble-ardy' to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live, as any human being does.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

As a result of playing Freddy Krueger, I can remember having to look at some medical books, and at some of the disfigurement that fire can cause on people, because they were the source material for some of the prosthetic makeup that I wore. That aided and abetted this fear of death by fire. Which is sort of what happened to Fred Krueger.