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

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 water is DEEP AND DARK AND DANGEROUS

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.

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

Stability was overrated. Crises and adventures, on the other hand, could actually teach you something.

Give away yourself for the benefit of others so that they will feel abundant.

Live, but do not love, because love is simply a lie, only heartache waits in its wake.

You don’t look injured to me. What am I supposed to think? Have you been with them this whole time? My god, Brook. Where were you?

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

Decide what your currency is early. Let go of what you will never have. People who do this are happier and sexier.

He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.

A carefully cultivated heart will, assisted by the grace of God, foresee, forestall, or transform most of the painful situations before which others stand like helpless children saying “Why?

There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle.

I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness.