...by the end of my first week as an intern, I am just about ready to throw my pager out the window. A high window. Overlooking a trash compactor. Filled with highly corrosive acid.

Live every single day doing something relevant

Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but ­essentially you’re on your own. ­Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine.

Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.

Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

I feel very fortunate to have been a part of many successful contemporary horror franchises.

But I like to swim. At high school, I tried out for the swim team. I shaved off all my body hair, and that extra burst of speed from all the bullies shouting Kill the fairy.

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life

I've been a babe magnet for quite a while now.

I will never give up if you never give in.