I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.
Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks
Guys like Henry and his buddies were an accident waiting to happen; the little kids' version of floods or tornadoes or gallstones.
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them.
Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.
There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.