The possession targets a vulnerability in each of its victims and amplifies it. Essentially, it removes the self-control and notions of good that keep us from acting out on our darkest impulses.

I need paper and pen to release my imagination. I can't create on a machine.

Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions.

I came up with an idea to turn the cliché inside out: instead of humans threatened by zombies, what if a sympathetic zombie was threatened by humans?

I like a strange, wide range of stuff. I like classical music and industrial noise bands. John Waters films and Peanuts cartoons. Barry Manilow and GG Allin. I should have my head examined.

I think many of us live in a rut. Stuck in a groove we can't get out of, whether it's our job, family drama or the little frustrations of everyday life.

The genres change but all of my stories feature ordinary people thrown into frightening, life-altering situations.

I'm going to slow down a little bit, but I won't stop creating. I can't!

Life is a moment of miracles.

If you want people to believe you, appeal to their hearts not to their brains

There are monsters among us. I mean this quite literally.

Good pitchers, after a tough outing, bounce back. Real good pitchers don't let too many poor games get in there.

It's always great to have a family member who knows exactly what you're going through in every way, shape, and form, and I'm blessed to have that in my sister.

Revolution devours its own parents as well as its own children.

I have kleptomania. But when it gets bad, I take something for it.

It didn't escape Karou's notice that he found subtle ways of touching her.

Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.

There are a lot of people in each spot that you don't really know. I work with them that day, and move on and find new people. So purging and cleansing your friend list every day.