Sometimes we gotta be brave even when we're scared. We gotta not let being scared keep us from thinkin' straight. That's all brave is, boy, when you come right down to it, not lettin' the fear get you so turned around you start doin' stupid things, instead of what you know you ought to do.

Maybe they did what they had to do to live, and tried to get a little love and have a little fun before the darkness took them.

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.

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.

They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart and leaves its scrimshaw tracery on the inside of your skull, life goes on. And pain grows dull, and begins to fade

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction.

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