Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.

We buy balloons, we let them go.

I have to return some videotapes

The better you look, the more you see.

Writing a novel is not method acting and I find it easy to step out of it at cocktail hour.

No one ever likes the right person.

Is evil something you are? Or is it something you do?

Why was I holding on to something that would never be mine? But isn't that what people do?

But this was what happened when you didn't want to visit and confront the past: the past starts visiting and confronting you.

I like the idea of a writer being haunted by his own creation, especially if the writer resents the way the character defines him.

And as the elevator descents, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even father down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

We can best honor our dead by livin' well. Moving' forward dusna mean y love them any less. It just means ye're still alive.

It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.

We may be a little broken these days but I wouldn't trade it for anything.

True courage is being afraid, and going ahead and doing your job anyhow, that's what courage is.

Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.

When they face desperation... human beings become animals.

[My] style evolved, not changed, but I think evolved as I grew and matured. I don't think there was any kind of change I did in a deliberate way - I think I just evolved.

Suddenly, in the early 20th century, there were thousands of men with essentially nothing to do. The farm work, as well as other work, was being handled by machines.

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.