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

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

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'm not in the service business.

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

Whatever story you're telling in Louisiana, the landscape is going to become a character in it.

The ideas within this philosophy are certainly not exclusive to any writer.