If Im going to invest the time in a novel, I want something more than the entertainment you get out of most genre fiction.

Your ideal possession candidate's a thirteen-year-old recently orphaned schizophrenic girl three days away from her period on her way to see the shrink with whom she's romantically besotted.

Kneecaps only exist to get hit with claw-hammers; grace only exists to be fallen from.

Renounce love and you can achieve demonic focus.

No artist knows everything... but since every artist knows more than he can tell, all art is lying by omission.

Just because life's meaningless doesn't mean we can't experience it meaningfully.

I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between.