I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace

I have been reading Stephen King since CARRIE and hope to read him for many years to come.

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

Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

I realized you might make money at writing, and you might even make a living at it. So after that I didn't write stories just for the class but wrote them for the purpose of submitting them somewhere, and at some point in the process, I began writing them just to please myself and that's where you begin to see the real value of a life of writing.

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.