There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because to some degree, I projected upon it.

Certain experiences you can't survive, and afterward you don't fully exist, even if you failed to die.

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion.

And if we’re talking about hard-boiled detectives, too, what could be more hardboiled than the worldview of Ligotti or Cioran? They make the grittiest of crime writers seem like dilettantes. Next to The Conspiracy Against the Human Race, Mickey Spillane seems about as hard-boiled as bubble gum.

The Atlantic really gave me my writing career - even just the conviction to be a writer.

Some people, no matter where they look, they see themselves.

There's never been anything I didn't love that I didn't connect with on a personal level because to some degree, I projected upon it.