here, there, and everywhere"-an opinionated riddle.

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.

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

Who said to kill does not require gentleness?

You can discover a person's true character by examining how their actions align with their words.

Just be calm to enjoy the charm.

It is usually the roughest road that leads to the heights of greatness.

People in the intelligence community are not made to believe in coincidences.

It's always frustrating when you leave people on base.

I am my own investigation territory.

The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it.

The thing that keeps you grounded is doing the thing you love.