My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice

I am not a morning person.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

The best lies are always at least partially true.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it.

Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.

As we are all solipsists, and all die, the world dies with us. Only very minor literature aims at apocalypse.

How do you lay low but still do your job? Try to stay out there without being out there like Jenny McCarthy?

She poured a little social sewage into his ears.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

I wish to be put away in a western dress I designed, with my daughter's little gold cross necklace and my son's small white testament in my hands, and my wedding band on.

As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.

Honor does not have to be defended.

I definitely fell in love with Dracula when I was 13. I found it so fascinating and so dark and romantic.