O God — please give him back! I shall keep asking You.

She sat keenly white and still among them, a witness to everything--maybe determining nothing, possibly judging it all.

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

I don't begin a novel or a screenplay until I know the ending. And I don't mean only that I have to know what happens. I mean that I have to hear the actual sentences. I have to know what atmosphere the words convey.

Goodnight you princes of Maine, you kings of New England.

I'm a worst-case scenario person. I'm only interested in a story because I kind of go, like a magnet, to the worst thing that can happen.

This is what self-centered religion does to us: it allows us to use it to further our own ends.