To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.

I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me Canadas scariest writer, and I love that.

If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

I just hated the law. I wasnt cut out for it. I couldnt imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

Tell me this. What is it with men and feeling like they have to act like self-destructive superheroes whenever trouble shows up?”“It’s the only way we know how to love.

You can't always rely on taking the pain. You need to learn to avoid it.

In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us.

Life is the most amazing game. Play hard with a deep love so that you may enjoy it.

Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice!

I hate to let people down. I was like that in sports and I was like that in comedy. I was like that at work. When I worked General Motors and stuff like that, when I say something, I mean it.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

I was really good at saying no. I decided I was just going to say yes to any opportunity that came, no matter how crazy. And it changed my life.

Domestic violence is the front line of the war against women.

In durance vile 1here must I wake and weep, And all my frowsy couch in sorrow steep.

When I was maybe like, under 10 years old, I was kind of like a maniac.