He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep

Money means I can support my family and still do what I love. Not very many people can say that in this world, and not many writers can say that.

No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh.

I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!

I've put men to death-men with supposedly immortal souls-that looked dumber than that mouse

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

...for the first time in my life, writing was hard. The problem was the teaching...by most Friday afternoons I felt as if I'd spent the week with jumper cables clamped to my brain.