Sometimes we gotta be brave even when we're scared. We gotta not let being scared keep us from thinkin' straight. That's all brave is, boy, when you ….

If you want something, you don't wait for the world to deal it out for you. You take it..

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you..

I can't heal your pain but I can see it. And you don't have to be lost. Not forever..

I like visiting peoples homes on Saint Josephs Day, when people set up altars, serve food as a tribute to the saint, and invite the public - I enjoy ….

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness..

They discovered that even in the face of pain that seems unbearable, even in the face of pain that wrings the last drop of blood out of your heart an….

When you have too much faith in something, it's bound to hurt you. Too much faith in anything will suck you dry. In this way, all the world is a vamp….

I believe in whatever gets you throught the night. [...] Night is the hardest time to be alive. For me, anyway. It lasts so long, and four A.M.knows ….

Never relinquish your terrors. That's when they catch you..

I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror..

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a pa….

If you’re ever lucky enough to belong somewhere, if a place takes you in and you take it into yourself, you don't desert it just because it can kill ….

Why bother? I was right all along: the second you make yourself vulnerable to someone, they start drawing blood..

I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained refere….

I'd much rather do an obviously commercial writing project than get a day job..

Some of the food in Liquor is food I've really eaten filtered through a veil of fiction..

Horror is the badge of humanity, worn proudly, self-righteously, and often falsely..

With the first kiss his mouth will taste of wormwood..

If you're a freelance writer and aren't used to being ignored, neglected, and generally given short shrift, you must not have been in the business ve….

Celebrities, even insignificant ones like me, are created to be abused by the Great Unwashed..