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.

New Orleans cuisine is Creole rather than Cajun.

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it.

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

I'm your nightmare. Did you think you were done with nightmares, now you've become one?

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.

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.