I go where the story leads. And, sometimes, it is a little bit outrageous. And I relish that. I sort of want to be as much on the edge as I can.

What we like to think of ourselves and what we really are rarely have much in common.

If you don't control your temper, your temper will control you.

I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me.

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.

The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance ... or change. Once such incantatory phrases as "we see now through a glass darkly" and "mysterious are the ways". He chooses His wonders to perform" are mastered, logic can be happily tossed out the window". Religious mania is one of the few infallible ways of responding to the world's vagaries, because it totally eliminates pure accident. To the true religious maniac, it's all on purpose.

Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned.