Theres something in human nature that says we need to have at least one symbolic place where chaos and dark desires can live.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

We need to kind of refresh our fear in order to refresh our understanding of how a safe place works.

Sometimes people close a door because they’re trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.

I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me Canadas scariest writer, and I love that.

If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock.

I just hated the law. I wasnt cut out for it. I couldnt imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

Psychological horror is more interesting to me than the explicitly physical.

Tell me this. What is it with men and feeling like they have to act like self-destructive superheroes whenever trouble shows up?”“It’s the only way we know how to love.

As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.

Moreover I hate everything which merely instructs me without increasing or directly quickening my activity.

The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.

Frowning I playfully blow a fresh handful of bubbles at him as we walks back out, laughing over his shoulder at me.

No love is foule, nor prison fair.

Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.

When I write on Twitter, I do other things: I'm working, grading, or reading, and I'm procrastinating, and I'll pop on Twitter and be like, "Hey, what's up? Yogurt's delicious."

I was always incredibly driven and found it impossible to relax. I felt that if I slacked off for a minute to enjoy myself, then so many things would be missed.

When did I stop being me?

The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.