Lightning flashed dully inside the clouds on the horizon making them look as if they had fireflies of their own, monster fireflies the size of dinosaurs.

I don't want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

...women are better at keeping secrets, but men are more comfortable with them.

Practice is invaluable... honesty is indispensable.

I hold to no God," Roland said. "I hold to the Tower, and won't pray to that.

I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.