If you’re ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill you. There are things more valuable than life.

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

I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever.

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

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.

In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny - an experience I've never had in America!

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.