It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for the banks to give back what they were given. There are those in politics, particularly those on the conservative side, who can't get enough of telling people that the wealthy one per cent must not be taxed because doing so kills jobs. The real job-killers are corporate greed and political expediency. It's time for working people in Maine and all across the country to take back the American dream.

I'm going to be dead for a long time, so I have a lot to do now.

Friends. They aren’t any such thing as good friend or bad friend. Maybe there are just friend. People who stand by you when you're hurt and who helped you feel not so lonely. Maybe there are worth being scared for and hoping for and living for. Maybe worth dying for too. If that what has to be. No bad friends. Only people you want. Need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

Lovecraft opened the way for me, as he had done for others before me

I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.

People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.

Teaching school is like having jumper cables hooked to your brain, draining all the juice out of you.