There will be water if God wills it.

Nobody lives forever, but we all shine on.

Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.

May you find your Tower, Roland, and breach it, and may you climb to the top!

Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working.

I don't really map anything out. I just let it happen [while writing]. But once it happens, it's always there. If it's laid, it's played. If I get to page 300 and it's not working, I junk it.

My father had taught me - mostly by example - that if a man wanted to be in charge of his life, he had to be in charge of his problems.