I think horror, when done well, is one of the most direct and honest ways to get to the core of the human experience because terror reduces all of us to our most authentic forms.

They want to be stimulated. They want to read something that can get under their skin and hang out there for a while.

Self-confidence is usually little more than wishful thinking in a thigh-high pair of Come F*ck Me boots.

Any writer of horror needs to at least have a good, solid love of the genre. Also, good horror writers need to have a slightly twisted sense of humor. Without humor, horror just isn’t as good.

Be honest about who you are, and you will understand the reasons for the people you keep in your life.

We end up treating life the way we see fit

Photography is a unique art that allows people to go back, not only to rediscover themselves but also to get something in print for the first time.

Bette Davis had very strong opinions and was not afraid to express them. She wasn't afraid of anything that I ever saw. And she was so funny. She's just funny and she was laughing all the time.

I’m not club-able, you see. I don’t like literary parties and literary gatherings and literary identities. I’d hate to join anything, however loosely.

There is a grey blur, and a green blur. I try to stay on the grey one.

Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels.

But I think, if you're in the spotlight, people are going to say bad things, and that's just the way it is.

I live the way I want to live, and I don't comment on the way that other people live.

A person should set his goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.