The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

I need paper and pen to release my imagination. I can't create on a machine.

Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions.

I came up with an idea to turn the cliché inside out: instead of humans threatened by zombies, what if a sympathetic zombie was threatened by humans?

I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined.

I think many of us live in a rut. Stuck in a groove we can't get out of, whether it's our job, family drama or the little frustrations of everyday life.

The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good that keep us from acting out on our darkest impulses.

I'm going to slow down a little bit, but I won't stop creating. I can't!

Marriage is sacred intimacy.

Refuse to be average. Let your heart soar as high as it will.

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.

Blurring the line between friendship and attraction was a surefire to lose a friend.

I come from a family and a heritage where you don't really go to therapy unless you're crazy. I want people to know that that's so not the case. It's enriching, and I've learned this new tool.

The man who follows Christ in solitary mourning is greater than he who praises Christ amid the congregation of men.

Vacation: a period of travel and relaxation when you take twice the clothes and half the money you need.

all deaths are one's own.

Western governments should bear their responsibilities toward the welfare of their people and not try to make oil producers pay the costs

If you aren't willing to have it, you will.