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

It’s better to not have a reputation than a bad one.

I don't think you can create effectively toward expectation. I'm not in the service business.

Often, what allows someone to behave heroically in dire circumstances is unpalatable in day-to-day life.

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.

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

Killing characters on television has become an easy short cut to cathartic emotion.