You want to remember that while you're judging the book, the book is also judging you.

sometimes an accident can be an unhappy womans best friend

Poe was the first writer to write about main characters who were bad guys or who were mad guys, and those are some of my favorite stories.

I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.

He realized now that a lot of the problem had been his own mind, which was usually moving at a speed ten or twenty times that of his classmates. They had thought him strange, weird, or even suicidal, depending on the escapade in question, but maybe it had been a simple case of mental overdrive-if anything about being in constant mental overdrive was simple. Anyway, it was the sort of thing you got under control after a while-you got it under control or you found outlets for it.

Absence may or may not make the heart grow fonder, but it certainly freshens the eye.

there is no gain without risk, perhaps no risk without love.