We don't know the days that will change our lives. Probably just as well.

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.

You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives

His mother called such people ignorant and superstitious, but his father only shook his head slowly and puffed his pipe and said that sometimes old stories had a grain or two of truth in them and it was best not to take chances. It was why, he said, he crossed himself whenever a black cat crossed his path.

Do you believe in an afterlife?" the gunslinger asked him as Brown dropped three ears of hot corn onto his plate. Brown nodded. "I think this is it.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

Artistic talent is far more common than the talent to nurture artistic talent.