We may think of ourselves as static anti-heroes, but in reality we're dynamic protagonists just waiting for our courage to kick in.

Which is the true nightmare, the horrific dream that you have in your sleep or the dissatisfied reality that awaits you when you awake?

The most formidable adversary of evil is a persistent man with a loud conscience.

I don't imagine book elitists as my audience when writing. I dream about teachers, morticians and garbage men instead.

Non fiction? Non fiction?! Listen, reality is what got me into this mess in the first place.

I don't remember ever signing up for weird. It just sort of happened.

The best horror novels open up, "It was beautiful summer day and the smell of flowers emanated throughout the air.

A good editor can make a respectable writer remarkable, just like a good parent helps a child become amazing.

The man with the most guns survives the zombie apocalypse, but the man with the most books, locks the door and forgets it ever happened.

Never give your opinion on someone's writing unless they ask sincerely, and never ask for someone's opinion unless you're sincere.

Tread lightly on your partner’s heart. It was given to you for safekeeping.

When you believe your lie, it will curse your life forever.

I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

When we talk about the decline of the American family, I think we have to go back to the Industrial Revolution.

Through my surfing, I met all my friends that helped me out in the music world, and so that's kind of how it all began. So, it was the surfing and then the music.

Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father.

My last sort of crisis was about overcoming the people who were more interested in what I had done than what I was doing in the present.

All great expression, which on a superficial survey seems so easy as well as so simple, furnishes after a while, to the faithful observer, its own standard by which to appreciate it.

If everyone can make music. Make better music.

I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.