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

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.

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

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.

Holy fear of God is to depart from evil.

When a complex is acquired, personal development is stopped and the person even being an adult, sometimes behaves in a childish and immature way

It must be admitted that there is a degree of instability which is inconsistent with civilization. But, on the whole, the great ages have been unstable ages.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Memory is the keyword which combines past with present, past and future.

Wisdom comes from disillusionment.

There may be trouble ahead - But while there's moonlight, and music, and love, and romance -Let's face the music and dance.

Apparently Bolivia is the key source of lithium in the world. So we're gonna trade the Saudis for the Bolivians.

We, as athletes, have our suspicions about who's cheating, but I'm not convinced that the testing has yet caught up with what people are using or what they are using to disguise it.

Even now I can say I'd love to finish my career here, and then stay in the game after that.