The water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

Odd, isn't it? You know when your birthday is, but not your death day, even though you pass the date year after year, never suspecting that some day.

I think it's dead bodies that really haunt me.

A story comes to you; it isn't like you choose it. You have no real control.

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

The rules are very strict.

I never thought that people my own age could die, let alone be murdered. Things like that didn't happen in 1955. The suburbs were a safe place, where nobody even locked their doors.

I think more people now have relationships with agents than with editors. And I don't have an agent.

I think Stephen King must be the most terrified person in the universe.

You have to be easily scared to know what it's like to be scared.

I still have this deep-down fear that if I go poking into the bushes I might find a dead body.

Never let fear of short term heartache interfere with your long term happiness.

If a man can tell if he's been successful in his life by having great friends, then I have been very successful.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

If we are truly created equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well

Soon after I returned to private practice, former Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger called me one day.

She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.

For me, failure has to be acknowledged, needs to be faced in some way.

We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.

The new evangelization ... begins in the confessional.