The true way to a man's heart is six inches of metal between his ribs." You have to love Anita Blake.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

I love animals, always have, and it seemed natural to help the ASPCA. Animals have no voice of their own, so we have to be that voice

I am not a morning person.

I always treated writing as a profession, never as a hobby. If you don't believe in yourself, no one else will.

Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner.

You'd think a sociopath assassin wouldn't have a fan following but he does

Zebrowski says that if you killed someone else just hide the body, he's not starting over on the paperwork.

Never trust people who smile constantly. They're either selling something or not very bright.

My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail

The best lies are always at least partially true.

Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made.

I suspect that writer's block afflicts mainly people who have some stable and ample source of income outside of writing. So far it hasn't been a problem.

We want more people owning things in this country. Let me put it to you bluntly: In a changing world, we want more people to have control over your own life.

I'm much more interested in Mike Tyson than I am in Morrissey.

I would never say, "I'm going to do these things in a video to be a role model so people make me a role model." I want to be myself.

The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order.

The alphabet and print technology fostered and encouraged a fragmenting process, a process of specialism and detachment. Electric technology fosters and encourages unification and involvement.

A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. A transcendent talent draws so largely on his forces as tolame him; a defect pays him revenues on the other side.

God places the heaviest burden on those who can carry its weight.

I grew up on movie sets, getting to see storytelling happen up close.