Don’t you understand?” he would say, “You imagine the story better than I remember it.

We are formed by what we desire

With every book, you go back to school. You become a student. You become an investigative reporter. You spend a little time learning what it's like to live in someone else's shoes.

Almost everyone is dying to leave home, eventually; and almost everyone needs to.

Nearly everything seems a letdown after a writer has finished writing something.

Here in St. Cloud’s,” Dr. Larch wrote, “ I have been given the choice of playing God or leaving practically everything up to chance. It is my experience that practically everything is left up to chance much of the time; men who believe in good and evil, and who believe that good should win, should watch for those moments when it is possible to play God – we should seize those moments. There won’t be may

Newspapers are even worse for me than ice cream; headlines, and the big issues that generate the headlines, are pure fat.