In polite society, we call our obsessions hobbies.

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Women's lib, Frannie had decided, was nothing more nor less than an outgrowth of the technological society. Women were at the mercy of their bodies. They were smaller. They tended to be weaker. A man couldn't get with child, but a woman could---every four-year-old knows it. And a pregnant woman is a vulnerable human being. Civilization had provided an umbrella of sanity that both sexes could stand beneath.

Jesus watches from the wall, But his face is cold as stone, And if he loves me As she tells me Why do I feel so all alone?

What if I fall?', Tim cried. Maerlyn laughed. 'Sooner or later, we all do.

if you tell yourself the great lie of bad art-that you are in charge-your chance at the truth will be lost. The truth isn't always pretty.

Upon being asked by a fan how to become a writer, Stephen King replied, "Write.