I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.

It's how we see the world that keeps the darkness beyond at bay. Keeps it from pouring through and devouring us. I think all of us might know that, way down deep.

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

I think everybody has experiences from time to time they can't explain. They are peculiarities. Usually we just dismiss them because they are uncomfortable to think about.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.

A short story is like a kiss in the dark.