I thought it was great fun to scare people. I also knew it was socially acceptable because there were a lot of horror movies out there.

Beating heroin is child's play compared to beating your childhood.

The water was glassy and calm, still candy-colored in the afterglow of sunset.

I think uncertainty is good for things. Certainty breeds complacency and complacency means that you just sit somewhere in your nice little comfortable suburban house in Michigan, looking at CNN and saying, "Oh, those poor immigrant children that are all coming across the border. But we really can't have them here - that isn't what God wants. Let's send them all back to the drug cartels." There's a complacency to it.

The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

You're dead, George. You just don't have the sense to lie down.