On that gray street, with the smell of industrial smokes in the air and the afternoon bleeding away to evening, downtown Derry looked only marginally more charming than a dead hooker in a church pew.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Outside, daylight was bleeding slowly toward dusk.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

A wounded heart that loves even more is immortal, it only survives and blooms time after time. If you happen to live in it, there's no safer place in the world than its beating.

What are we, Charlie's Angels?

Teachers support evaluations based on multiple measures: student growth, classroom observation and feedback from peers and parents.

Climate change is the mother of all hysterias of the Left

The older I get, the more obvious it is that you're not really in control of your life, you're a part of a larger wave, no matter who you are.

In middle life politics are not a mental acquisition; they are a temperament.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles are truths, and seem riddles because you are not true.

You don't need people's opinion on a fact.

What one writer can make in the solitude of one room is something no power can easily destroy.