I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.

I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it.

Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

I believe in evil, but all my life I've gone back and forth about whether or not there's an outside evil, whether or not there's a force in the world that really wants to destroy us, from the inside out, individually and collectively.

we need ghost stories because we, in fact, are the ghosts.

Things come in three major degrees in the human experience, I think. There's good, bad, and terrible. And as you go down into progressive darkness towards terrible, it gets harder and harder to make subdivisions.