She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.

stop now before i kill you a word to the wise from your friend PENNYWISE

But it's writing, damn it, not washing the car or putting on eyeliner. If you can take it seriously, we can do business. If you can't or won't, it's time for you to close the book and do something else. Wash the car, maybe.

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.

When I was younger, I used to vacillate between thinking love was this great and glorious mystery and thinking it was just something a bunch of Hollywood move producers made up to sell more tickets in the Depression, when Dish Night kind of played out." Eddie laughed. Now I think that all of us are born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You...Eddie, you fill me up.

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.