When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.

Some people are like Slinkies.They aren't really good for anything, but they still bring a smile to my face when I push them down a flight of stairs.

Evil must always be fought.

My will broke at the sound of his voice, and my head turned with as much inevitability as a sunflower turning its face to the sun.

A man says a lot of things in summer he doesn't mean in winter.

The only certainty life contains is death.

It is one of those lessons that every child should learn: Don't play with fire, sharp objects, or ancient artifacts.

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

If it looks like a hallway, feels like a hallway, and acts like a hallway—is it important to figure out that it isn’t a hallway?

Usually the people I do know are sufficient to spawn any number of nightmares without inventing any.

Anger is stupid, and stupidity will kill you more surely than your opponent's blade.

It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend.

I've got time, I hope, to make lots of quiet records. So quiet you won't be able to hear them.

The reason it's hard for me to tweet is I don't want to pronounce anything, and Twitter is for pronouncing.

Why should I not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside, looking into the shining world?

Militant feminists, I take my hat off to them, they don't like that.

I have a tendency to be lucky and make the right choices based on limited information.

You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

What is planted in each person's soul will sprout.

Given the daunting challenges that we face, it's important that president elect Obama is prepared to really take power and begin to rule day one.

We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.