I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get.

A change is as good as a rest.

If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.

Death is when the monsters get you.

Yes, I’ve made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it...I have written because it fulfilled me. ... I did it for the pure joy of the things. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever.