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.

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

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

Your melancholy. Or depression. Along with nine-tenths of the afflictions I've studied, diagnosed, attempted to treat. Call them whatever you like, but they're just different names for loneliness. That's what lets the darkness in. That's what you have to fight.

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

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

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