Tommy told Sal about the strange white-cloth figure with black stitches that he had found on the front porch. "Sounds like Pillsbury Doughboy gone punk," Sal said.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

...like a scene from the swamps of Louisiana or the mind of Poe on opium.

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.

The process, not the final achievement, is what it's all about.

Lots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.