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

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

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?

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.

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years.