You've got forever; and somehow you can't do much with it. You've got forever; and it's a mile wide and an inch deep and full of alligators.

I kissed her, a long hard kiss. Because baby didn't know it, but baby was dead, and in a way I couldn't have loved her more.

Dad always said that he had enough trouble sorting the fiction out of so-called facts, without reading fiction. He always said that science was already too muddled without trying to make it jibe with religion. He said those things, but he also said that science itself could be a religion, that a broad mind was always in danger of becoming narrow.

It doesn't matter what answers you get if you ask the wrong questions.

There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.

A weed is a plant out of place.

I found out long ago that the place where the law is apt to be abused the most is right around a courthouse.