One of the greatest sorrows of human existence is that some people aren't happy merely to be alive but find their happiness only in the misery of others.

We have a responsibility to stand watch over one another, we are watchers, all of us, watchers, guarding against the darkness.

I'm alive but I have no life. I'm alive but also dead. I'm dead and alive.

A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.

He said, if you allow yourself to be enchanted by the beauty to be seen in even ordinary things, then all things proved to be extraordinary.

Because people see violence on the movie screen, they're not going to go out and hold up a liquor store and kill somebody. It really doesn't correlate.

Literary fiction, as a strict genre, is all but dead. Meanwhile, most genres flourish.