Make your own worlds. Make your own laws. Make your own creations, your own star systems. Don't feel answerable to anyone, or as though you have to create after some preordained model. You don't have to write like myself, or King or Anne Rice: be yourself. Nothing is more wonderful than discovering a new voice, particularly if it happens to be your own.

A monster lies in wait in me,a stew of wounds and misery.But fiercer still in life and limb,the me that lies in wait in him

To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.

We burn so hard, but we shed so little light; it makes us crazy and sad.

To you who have never died, may I say: Welcome to the world!

I don't take accusations of selling out lightly.

Flesh could not keep its glamour, nor eyes their sheen. They would go to nothing soon. But monsters are forever.