I like visiting peoples homes on Saint Josephs Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy that much more than Mardi Gras.

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.

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

Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood.

My childhood may have been more demented than most, because I learned to read very early and was allowed to read whatever I wanted.

If you find yourself imitating another writer, that doesn't have to be a bad thing, especially if you are a young or a new writer. However, you should be conscious of exactly how you are imitating him - word choice, sentence structure, motifs? - and think about why you're doing it.