I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job.

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.

You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

Young writers shouldn't be afraid of striving to emulate their favorites. It's a good way to learn, as long as you move on from it and don't publish too many of the results.

Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.

Ive tried to avoid labels, but they always find you.

Temptation is stronger in the minds of people who are in doubt. Prayer makes it weaker.

No one is born a sprinter. We all learn to push ourselves up from the floor and then balance before taking that first, wobbly step. It is an individual choice where to go from there.

Turbulence means nothing if God is the pilot.

Not everyone with a painting brush is an artist, likewise not everyone with a camera is a photographer

I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.

So many old and lovely things are stored in the world's attic because we don't want them around us and we don't dare throw them out.

He didn't want Lucy to grow up feeling alone, surrounded by everything and having nothing.

Character + Chance = Success

Metal is still the biggest music now in America.

But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!