If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. - Japanese Proverb

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave.

The sort of strenuous reading and writing program I advocate - four to six hours a day, every day - will not seem strenuous if you really enjoy doing these things and have an aptitude for them.

Most books about writing are filled with bullshit. Fiction writers, present company included, don’t understand very much about what they do—not why it works when it’s good, not why it doesn’t when it’s bad.

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live.