They want to be stimulated. They want to read something that can get under their skin and hang out there for a while.

I think horror, when done well, is one of the most direct and honest ways to get to the core of the human experience because terror reduces all of us to our most authentic forms.

Self-confidence is usually little more than wishful thinking in a thigh-high pair of Come F*ck Me boots.

Any writer of horror needs to at least have a good, solid love of the genre. Also, good horror writers need to have a slightly twisted sense of humor. Without humor, horror just isn’t as good.

My work has always tried to unite the True with the Beautiful and when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the Beautiful.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

Peace in international affairs: a period of cheating between periods of fighting

When beauty is universal, it loses its power to move the heart, and only its absence can produce any emotional effect.

I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.

When we love, it is the heart that judges.

Many blue-collar families struggling to pay rent would be happy to skip paying optional union dues.

Dying is a really hard way to learn about life.

You've gotta have somebody to trust, that knows a lot.

Why are there no clouds in the sky? ... 'Cause God wants to watch his favorite band again!