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.

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

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.

Until we face the war within ourselves, the world will never change.

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

Whether you buy a new TV, or car, (etc.) or any other “material” thing is often “immaterial” to God.

Send the haters all my love. X and O.

[The] public path of life Is dirty.

I've been playing sexually aware women most of my life. At this point I expected to be playing moms and wives. It's exciting to play a femme fatale.

The strength you've insisted on assigning to others is actually within yourself.

The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.

The right of holding slaves is clearly established in the Holy Scriptures, both by precept and example.

Jesus is magic, because he turned water into wine. I think he made the statue of liberty disappear in the 80s or something.