here in the summer desert, winter found my blood

Fate cannot be sidestepped or outrun.

All these girls swooning over hunky vampires, what they really want is to give away their freedom, to be controlled and told what to do and not have to think -- and never die, of course. It's sick is what it is. I don't want to be a forever-young living corpse.

At the core of every ordered system, whether a family or a factory, is chaos. But in the whirl of every chaos lies a strange order, waiting to be found.

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

Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.

That was interesting, riding in the trunk," Milo said, "but I wouldn't want to do it again.