I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

Sometimes, it turns out, the most important decisions in life are made by your dog.

Faith does not ignore the facts, it ignores the power of the facts.

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster.

If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.

My God, I could raise a family of six children and hold down a full-time job with all the energy I expend on depression!

I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.

I accredit animals for keeping me going when times were bad.

It's a responsibility of the writer to get the reader out of the story somehow.

Produce as many ideas as possible. Try to produce unlikely ideas.

You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it’s all a waste and a sin to take it if you can’t use it.