Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you.

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4am knows all my secrets.

My dad told me that no one could ever make it as a writer, that my chances were equivalent to winning the lottery - which was good for me, because I like to have something to prove.

In France, for instance, one magazine writer was convinced that On The Road had been a huge influence on Lost Souls and was crushed to learn that I hadn't read the one until after I'd written the other.