A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own water, you work the handle with your own strength. You do this because you expect to get back more than you give.

If something is accessible to a lot of people, it's got to be dumb because most people are dumb.

Gordie: Do you think I'm weird? Chris: Definitely. Gordie: No man, seriously. Am I weird? Chris: Yeah, but so what? Everybody's weird

The woman had looked into the abyss and then walked out across it.

I think the best writers are voracious readers who pick up the cadences and the feel of narration through a number of different books. And you begin by maybe copying the style of writers that really knocked you out.

First comes smiles, then lies. Last is gunfire.-Roland Deschain, of Gilead

Get busy living, or get busy dying.