Good horror offers a sense of an upended, lawless world and that’s appealing to anyone who grew up feeling like an outsider.

Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.

If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.

If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly.

Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.

I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.

This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.

I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.

I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.

Is fame without purpose and is fame without talent really where we are now? People used to be famous for what they did. Now, they're just famous.

Do I appreciate the idea of jealousy, revenge and all these so-called dark qualities? Yes. Do I write these songs in order to engage in some public war with someone? No.

Why must we suffer? Because here below pure Love cannot exist without suffering. O Jesus, Jesus, I no longer feel my cross when I think of yours.

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do that at times. But even he has a hard time making 'The Appaloosa' a good movie.

Every kid Grade 6 and up carries a cellphone - with that they can access the world. They are the most connected, aware generation that's ever existed.

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched.

It's very difficult leaving the house anytime with my baby at home.

In a country where ignorant millions are in majority, nightmares never end! When one nightmare finishes, another one starts!

Information is antifragile; it feeds more on attempts to harm it than it does on efforts to promote it.

I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist.