“...nobody ever takes from the desert anything but aridity and monsters...”

“...people demonize certain types of crime - it's a way of distancing ourselves from the monsters...”

“...you forget love - though you fled from them, you secretly loved the monsters of your childhood...”

“...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...”

“...cities are murky places - hatching grounds for monsters...”

“...our monsters walk the dark pathways of secret motives...”

“...we fear monsters because we fear the dark parts of ourselves...”