“You can’t think of writing as an adult pursuit or anything that’s important. That’s a good way to turn into a gasbag and start to think that you’re really f*cking important. You’re not. You just do your work.”

“In every marriage, after the shine is off, then you get down to the serious work of building a relationship.”

“I’ve been in recovery a day at a time for a long time now. All I know is what works for me: staying out of the wine aisle in Publix.”

“I think what people will say is ‘This is the scary guy—the guy who wrote the horror novels.’ But I’d like to be known as somebody who was just a decent human being.”