My characters surprise me constantly. My characters are like my friends - I can give them advice, but they don't have to take it. If your characters are real, then they surprise you, just like real people

There had to be a circle of Hell where you were eternally fourteen, eternally in junior high. One of the lower circles.

They say there is no light without dark, no good without evil, no male without female, no right without wrong. That nothing can exist if it's direct opposite does not also exist.

Nicky looked down at me with a knowledge on his face that he was holding the monster in his arms. I'd have comforted him, but it would have been all lies.

One serial killer sends me a human head in a box, and I get all spooked; Go figure.

We were U.S. Marshals. We hunted and killed the monsters. We did not run from them

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.