The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life led by human beings; the second was that human beings could survive a life in hotels.

You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.

YOU LET ME DROWN!” Owen said. “YOU DIDN’T DO ANYTHING! YOU JUST WATCHED ME DROWN! I’M ALREADY DEAD!” he told us. “REMEMBER THAT: YOU LET ME DIE.

Writing is hard. I learned how to work hard from wrestling, not English courses.

The more clearly one sees this world; the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

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

Because abortions are illegal, women who need and want them have no choice in the matter, and you-because you know how to perform them-have no choice, either