My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls

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

If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.

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

Evil is no faceless stranger, living in a distant neighborhood. Evil has a wholesome, hometown face, with merry eyes and an open smile. Evil walks among us, wearing a mask which looks like all our faces.

Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.