Get through the moment. Avoid confrontation. Run away. That's pretty much how we get through our own lives, watching television. Smoking crap. Self-medicating. Redirecting our own attention. Jacking off. Denial.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

Nothing of me is original. I am the combined effort of everyone I've ever known.

When both of you are beautiful, neither of you is beautiful. Together, as a couple, you're less than the sum of your parts.

The evil queen was stupid to play Snow White's game. There's an age where a woman has to move on to another kind of power. Money, for example. Or a gun.

Most times, it's just a lot easier not to let the world know what's wrong.

What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.