The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me.

I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion. I, of course, never achieve this, but I always act as if I can.

I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life. Not by saying something it believes is true, but by attacking it.

The thing he said aloud did not succeed.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

Being loved is the only thing that is admirable by any stretch of the imagination.

Spend lavishly on creams. Wash your hair with henna at the first sign of gray. Never spend one minute thinking about what you do not have. And most importantly, indulge in everything but love.

Who gave fire permission to burn?

Keep your expectation with God only, not with Human.

Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch.

They are bringing drugs. They are bringing crime. They are rapists. We need to build a wall.

The only time the press doesn’t sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then.

California is maybe the richest place in the world. They're destroying the best public education system in the world.

If you want to put somebody down, analogize them to the n - - .