Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

No one's ever dared come out and say it before, but there's not a man among us that doesn't think it, that doesn't feel just as you do about her and the whole business - feel it somewhere down deep in his scared little soul.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.

I been away a long time.

I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismograph.

What we hoped was that we could stop the coming end of the world.