“In this world, I’ve got no choice: there is nothing left at all; and you don’t notice, but that’s all right: you don’t know what it’s like.”

I think also there was a lot of coming to terms with where I am in life, where I fit in as a gay man in America, and getting more comfortable with who I am.

…Everything you hate is everything that you created.

Like the fear of destruction keeps one from saying what they want to say – when, in actuality, by not saying it, things get worse. Because it’s the entropy, the leak that doesn’t get fixed.

We create our own destiny by the way we do things. We have to take advantage of opportunities and be responsible for our choices.

We are here today to make a choice between the quick and the dead.

Inaction without more is not tantamount to choice.

My life has been extremely complicated. Not by choice at the beginning at all, but later on, I had become used to complication and went on accepting things that other people would have found too difficult to accept.

I write horror because I enjoy it. I’m endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don’t have much choice. This is the way my mind works.

Choice is a determinant in personal development … by my free acts I am making myself.

The rare scholars who are nomads-by-choice are essential to the intellectual welfare of the settled disciplines.

I get more choices of things, projects, which is a blessing and a curse. I can only do one at a time. Sometimes you don’t know which way to go.