The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.

He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.

The most important things are the hardest to say

Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

If I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross out. I'm not proud.

When you ask me what I'm afraid of, I'd say I still go to see ghost movies when I get a chance or some sort of supernatural being, but it doesn't scare me as it scared me when I was a child.