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I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.
Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.
Pay and the story rolls. Steal and the story folds. No stealing from the blind newsboy.
There is zero, and there is eternity, and there is mortality, but there is no ultimate.
People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.
The poets continually and sometimes wilfully mistake love. Love is the old slaughterer.
Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?
I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.
The mind can calculate, but the spirit yearns, and the heart knows what the heart knows
I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.
In the year 2025, the best men don't run for president, they run for their lives. . . .
But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.
Above, the stars shone hard and bright, sparks struck off the dark skin of the universe.
Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.
I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops.
Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.
Life was a wheel, its only job was to turn, and it always came back to where it started.
...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.
Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.
Hairstyles change, and skirt lengths, and slang, but high school administrations? Never.
Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.
Everything's a lot tougher when it's for real. That's when you choke. When it's for real.
There are really very few economies of scale in centralising or standardising advertising.
I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.
Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.
You learned to accept, or you ended up in a small room writing letters home with Crayolas.
Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.
Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.
It's hard enough for a person to keep their own socks pulled up, let alone someone else's.
Ninety-eight percent of what goes on in people's heads is none of their smucking business.
I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.
The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.
I believe that anyone using the phrase 'That's so cool' should have to stand in the corner.
The only [working] ritual is making tea. I use the loose leaves and drink it by the gallon.
I've put men to death-men with supposedly immortal souls-that looked dumber than that mouse
Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.
Time was a face on the water, and like the great river before them, it did nothing but flow.
Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God.
I think telling stories is like pushing something. Pushing against uncreation itself, maybe.
Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man insane.
Go now. Our journey is done. And may we meet again, in the clearing, at the end of the path.
You discarded most of the lies along the way but held on to the one that said life mattered.
There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.
The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes--maybe even often--it's the solution.
The rope by which the great blocks of taxes are attached to any citizenry is simple loyalty.
God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?
Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.
It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.
Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.