Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness

I kind of build a novel the way marine polyps build a coral reef, it's millions and millions of little precarious bodies stacked on one another. And in my case, that's thousands of minutes I go through to get from one scene to the next and build it that way.

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.