The inmates made jokes about the chair, the way people always make jokes about things that frighten them but can't be gotten away from.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.

The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.

Like some dogs: kick them once and they never trust you again, no matter how nice you are to them.

What our parents tell us when we are small seldom goes ignored, no matter how foolish it may be

That— we seemed to have decided without saying a word— might go a long way toward spoiling something that was special, and beautiful, by virtue of its strangeness and delicacy.

It would not do to tell other people, not just because they wouldn't believe but because they wouldn't care.

He was nothing but a conduit, after all, and there isn't a culvert in the world that remembers the water flowed through it once the rain has stopped.

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

Riding Valegro always makes you smile, so I enjoy it.

The most important measure of how good a game I played was how much better I’d made my teammates play.

When you have become one with the Great Universal, you will have no partiality, and when you are part of the process of transformation, you will have no rigidity.

To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

What is the difference between method and device? A method is a device which you use twice.

I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

Criminality is always the result of poverty.

Color is like cooking. The cook puts in more or less salt, that's the difference!

There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.