She doesn't understand that a writer is a special creature--that I'm different from everyone else. I'm not saying I'm superior to other people, just more sensitive, I guess.

It's Christmas! Ah, Christmas, the time when all good people go about not decapitating each other.

What this movie needs is more brain eating zombies.

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

One of them hissed-not the hiss of a cat, a long, steady tone-more like the hiss of air escaping the rubber raft that is all that lies between you and a dark sea full of sharks, the hiss of your life leaking out at the seams.

That's the scary thing about hope," she said. "If you let it go too long it turns into faith.

You know, there's a 12 step program for gambling. You should look into that. Twelve steps. Coyote laughed. I'll bet I can do it in six.