Our lives are not all interconnected. That theory is a crock. Some people truly do not need to be here.

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

And at the last all shall be safe, and evil thrust out never to return. And so that the trust be kept, he said, I give it into your charge, and your sons', and your sons' sons, until the day come.

A boy is a creature of odd feelings.

The best of a human being is still a human being.

A man and a woman marry because both of them don't know what to do with themselves.

The immediate, highest priority need, in my humble opinion, is that we build quickly the interim structures that can channel water away from population and businesses in the New Orleans area.

A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside; inside is more often his nursery.

And I love shooting football.

There is no kind of harassment that a man may not inflict on a woman with impunity in civilized societies.

Challenges are the key in life. You always have to challenge yourself and try to get to different states.

The land is numb. It stands beneath the feet, and one may come Walking securely, till the sea extends Its limber margin, and precision ends.