I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar.

We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.

Did-a-chick? Dum-a-chum? Dad-a-cham? Ded-a-chek?

I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there.

Zombies are the new vampire.

I like to end stories where the readers have a little room to run. They can resolve things as they like in their own mind.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.