One of the most subtle and powerful writers of dark fiction - a unique voice.

You can send people letters, and show them photos, but they can never come to visit where you live. Unless you love them. And then they can burn it down.

You have to accept gifts occasionally, because there are some things you can’t give yourself

Being truly aimless is like being dead. It may even be the same thing, or worse. It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go.

Hell is being alive, and being alive is all there is.

Death is real. Death changes things. Everything else is filler, merely a message from our sponsor.

My limited experience of such things told me that you get closest to the truth by not giving it advance warning that you're coming after it.

You haven't seen untidiness until you've seen a room where gravity has failed twice in different directions.

Disbelief is easy, Kane. It’s faith that takes courage, and character.

When you let it get personal, the cost becomes personal too. You’re opening your own heart here. You sure you want to do that?

There are times when life seems like a struggle where the only reward you get for hanging on is the chance to struggle some more.

The real world is where the monsters are.

Egotorial: An editorial in broadcasting or print media where the subject matter is secondary to the superficial, pretentious, or materialist ego of the author.

He was a living dead man. According to official records he had died, not once, but twice. yet he still breathed

There's no evidence that I'm aware of that guns protect liberty.

Let's run away to Venice, and hide out in an old movie theater. We can dye our hair blonde, so no one will ever find us!

... the will always wills to do something and thus implicitly holds in contempt sheer thinking, whose whole activity depends on "doing nothing.

It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man.

I cop a fair bit of flack for going from 'such a babe to such a boy'. I wanted to share (that) story.

Has that line ever worked for anyone?” “I’m not feeding you lines. I mean every word.” … “Day One of my life was the day I met you.” “Okay, that’s a winner. You can put it in.

Music is powered by ideas. If you don't have clarity of ideas, you're just communicating sheer sound.