"To dare to live alone is the rarest courage since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet."

"Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console."

"We ask advice, but we mean approbation."

"The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later."

"You have to like the present if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future."

"Southern Gothic is alive and well. It's not just a genre, it is a way of life."

"We moved to a place where we felt the children could have as normal an upbringing as possible. Los Angeles was not it. We live in a place with clean air and animals."

"Thrillers are my favorite. I like stuff that keeps you on the edge of your seat or maybe makes you jump."