Writing about the unholy is one way of writing about what is sacred.

Mutilation is the badge that can never be taken off, and sets us apart from all others. Pain is important to the bonding-a physical horror that bonds us ever tighter to all those who have partaken. The intensity of the experience helps to widen the gulf between us and those who have not shared.

Fear is a place where you just tell the truth

Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling off; and you're trying to be as humane as you possibly can, but they are, after all, eating the cat. And the fear of mass activity, of mindlessness on a national scale, underlies my fear of zombies.

Midian is where the monsters go.

You'll learn, honey. Love can be the best thing in life. And it can be the worst. The absolute worst.

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.