That was my nature - going from temptation after temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.

I don't know why one author writes westerns while another writes detective novels. You don't know why. You go where the intensity is. I feel most comfortable writing about monsters. It's possible that I feel like a monster myself. Or maybe it's because we all have a monster inside of us, a vampire, a ghost, a witch or a werewolf. You do it because it works and it feels really right and authentic.

Go where the pain is, go where the pleasure is.

Without memory there can be no insight. Without love, there can be no appreciation.

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love.

I think love can save the world. When we love, we completely recognize the value of the other.

It struck me, sharp and hard, that I had been given so many chances to save my soul that my entire life had been constructed around these chances! That was my nature - going from temptation to temptation, not to sin, but to be redeemed.