Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.

I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me Canadas scariest writer, and I love that.

If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

I just hated the law. I wasnt cut out for it. I couldnt imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.

Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

Tell me this. What is it with men and feeling like they have to act like self-destructive superheroes whenever trouble shows up?”“It’s the only way we know how to love.

If happy I can be I will, if suffer I must I can.

There are great lessons to be learn’t in every trail. Look for the gold in every encounter.

Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.

I got interested in the idea of music that could make itself, in a sense, in the mid 1960s really, when I first heard composers like Terry Riley, and when I first started playing with tape recorders.

If you have the opportunities of Berkshire, an investment in gold is dumb.

When the young woman leans over the sky, about to water the flowers as well as the weeds, her white front splits open until her milk runs.

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

First you have to teach a child to talk, then you have to teach it to be quiet.

My dad and I have always been somewhat competitive.

He holds him with his glittering eye, And listens like a three years' child.