Can you imagine life without the horror genre? There would be no monsters. Only a**holes.

Goodreads.com is actually about fiction not dreading goo. But I have a profile there, anyway...

Humility and shame have been confused. Humility is knowing that you know nothing for sure and shame is someone having to tell you.

Nothing in life or love slipped easily into the tidy little box of his expectations.

I'm not much interested in prizes, whether from the Arab world or from the Western world. Writing is a very difficult process and I want to continue my work.

For me and my wife, it was love at first sight.

Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.

I find Donald Trump to be very kind and generous. I find him to have a great sense of humor.

On devient moral de' s qu'on est malheureux. We become moral once we are miserable.

I wanted my wild things to be frightening.

I think that the notion of being creative is the notion that, inwardly, you assume that many things are possible. And that you can try these things and that something will happen.

I still think there is a residual desire amongst the majority of the public to be given a proper solution.