I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

I began to feel lighthearted. Don't ever do that; it tempts some dark and evil force abroad in the universe.

The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.

Writers tell stories better, because they've had more practice, but everyone has a book in them. Yes, that old cliche.

Whatever the hell I am, I am Me.

Im a devotee of Dracula, which was a pathfinder in horror and vampire fiction.

It gets cold in the desert at night, particularly up in the mountains; the stars hammer on the rock and strike frost.