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.

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.

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.

To look at the work of your peers, and learn how to explain with kindness and precision, the nature of their mistakes is, in fact, how you learn to diagnose your own work.

Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

I'm not like a performer type.

If you are to succeed in anything, you must first be able to imagine it.

I'll never be that trusting again, believing accountants and lawyers have my best interests at heart.

I dont want to play second leads or third leads in a film. I started working at 17. I still have a long way to go.

Father's Day is important because, besides being the day on which we honor Dad, it's the one day of the year that Brookstone does any business.

Hatred is a settled anger.

I usually go for the ethnic ladies. That's kinda my preference, but I don't discriminate.

Thank God for the passing of the discomforts and vile cuisine of the age of chivalry!

God made us and God is able to empower us to do whatever he calls us to do. Denying that we can accomplish God's work is not humility; it is the worst kind of pride.