Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.

Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

Theres a constant struggle going on about how much will be illegal and how much you will be free to take. Can we open the pharmacies? Can we put Valium and Percodan and those sorts of things out on the shelves? I wouldn't take it. I don't know.

I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

The only religions I don't like are the ones that insist their God is bigger than your God.

You know," Glen Bateman said, looking out toward Grand Junction in the early light of morning, "I've heard the saying 'That sucks' for years without really being sure of what it meant. Now I think I know.