They were new money, without a doubt: so new it shrieked. Their clothes looked as it they'd covered themselves in glue, then rolled around in hundred-dollar bills.

Lose your temper and you lose the fight.

All stories are about wolves. All worth repeating, that is. Anything else is sentimental drivel.

There were a lot of gods. Gods always come in handy, they justify almost anything.

Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along.

The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.

Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.

This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.

Those who live alone slide into the habit of vertical eating: why bother with the niceties when there's no one to share or censure? But laxity in one area may lead to derangement in all.

More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.

He was deciding whether to cut her throat or love her forever.

When you continually worry about what other people think of you, they own you.

This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives

We are only as sick as our secrets.

Success is all about believing, always visualizing what you want to do and want to be and act accordingly on it until become it reality.

Love is worth the sum of itself, and nothing more.

The trouble with having a place for everything is how often it gets filled up with everything else.

It is important for me to discover the ideal title, for without this title the story or novel isn't quite in focus.

In my opinion, right now there's way too much hype on the technologies and not enough attention to the real businesses behind them.

Prayer turns ordinary mortals into men of power. It brings power. It brings fire. It brings rain. It brings life. It brings God.

Minnesotans hate zeal. Zeal is right up there on the list of suspicious emotional behaviors like joy and despair. Always err on the side of blandness.