Football is the most successful cult, in terms of members and profits, in human history. Oh wait, there's also religion.

All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work of fiction.

We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

Misery loves another idiot with a jukebox where his soul should be.

Nothing on Earth is so beautiful as the final haul on Halloween night.

At the end of night, before you close your eyes, be content with what you've done and be proud of who you are.

I have a hard time defending the production of candy, given that it is basically crack for children and makes them dependent in unwholesome ways.

The answer is that we don't choose our freaks, they choose us.

At about the age of ten, during a late summer visit to Sears to buy school clothes, I became aware of the concept of candy by the pound.

The single biggest reason I got my stories taken in various literary magazines - and I want to stress this - is because I refused to give up. Period.

If you want to fight a cult, you've got to form a cult.

I told you, " he whispers back. I can feel his breath just tickling the space behind my ear, making my hair prick up on my neck. "I like you.""You don't know me, " I say quickly."I want to, though.

Do not think that your magic ring will work if you are not yourself Solomon.

We can do whatever we wish to do provided our wish is strong enough. ... What do you want most to do? That's what I have to keep asking myself in the face of difficulties.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.

What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive.

Mystification is simple; clarity is the hardest thing of all.

Brains are far more important than money or connections. Everyone and anyone can create a business out of their bedroom.

At every opportunity, I wanted to play football.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.