“I was covered in gore, dripping in slime, and in a very bad mood.”

“The way Id put it, said Makin, is that Rike cant make an omelet without wading thigh deep in the blood of chickens and wearing their entrails as a necklace.”

“Mere grimness is as easy as grinning; but it requires something to put a handsome face on a story. Narratives become of suspicious merit in proportion as they lean to Newgate-like offenses, particu...”

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”

“Despite my ghoulish reputation, I really have the heart of a small boy. I keep it in a jar on my desk.”

“Part of his mind was screaming, but it was a distant one and easy to ignore.”

“My mistake was that I didn't kill you.”

“I tell everyone who asks me about writing...almost everyone has an idea for a book, and some even have a great ending, but it's that 290 or so pages in between that are tough!”