“Don't classify me, read me. I'm a writer, not a genre.”

“Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.”

“What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous.”

“The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.”