Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.

A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing is perfect.

You are a New Yorker when what was there before is more real and solid than what is here now.

Memory is the most malicious cutter of all, preserving, recasting, panning in slow motion across the awful bits so that we retain every detail.

In other words, fiction is payback for those who have wronged you.

We never see other people anyway, only the monsters we make of them.

What isn't said is as important as what is said.

Sanctimony and self-regard are as American as smallpox blankets and supersize meals.

A society manufactures the heroes it requires.

Google "brooklyn writer" and you'll get, Did you mean: the future of literature as we know it?

We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

We are born to serve, to find the power of love, and to get what we deserve.

Mother is water.

The happiest of endings begin with a struggle so embrace yours

People think meditation is a huge undertaking.

Nobody can make more fun of me than I already make of myself.

I've been trying to do films for years. So I've decided to wait until the next good part comes along and develop a record on my own in the meantime.

A foreigner is a friend I have yet to meet.

Christ’s love and friendship are no illusion. On the Cross Jesus showed how real they are.

The drive for happiness is vital; it's what keeps us in motion.