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.

Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed.

And I can't think of a reason I'd ever use a pseudonym, as I wouldn't want to publish something that I didn't like enough to put my name on it.

All at once it hit him: this was power too, just as surely as smashing your fist into someone’s face, just as surely as putting a hammer through someone’s skull. The power to make another person crazy with pleasure instead of fear and pain, to have every cell in another person’s body at your thrall.

You can only maintain an immensely gothic attitude for so long before either killing yourself or beginning to feel like a poser.

My mother is an office manager, my father a professor of economics and financial planner.