American grammar doesn't have the sturdiness of British grammar, but it has its own scruffy charm.

I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Death was no less a miracle than birth.

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

The advantage of horror books is to take the reader and cut him out of the pack and work on him one on one. It has its advantages because the people that are there in the movie theater really are a mob. If you get one guy alone you can do a more efficient job of scaring him.

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.