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

I think it is beyond doubt that H. P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.

It always comes down to just two choices. Get busy living, or get busy dying.

The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.

It's the pool where we all go down to drink, to swim, to catch a little fish from the edge of the shore; it's also the pool where some hardy souls go out in their flimsy wooden boats after the big ones. It is the pool of life, the cup of imagination, and she has an idea that different people see different versions of it, but with two things ever in common: it's always about a mile deep in the Fairy Forest, and it's always sad. Because imagination isn't the only thing this place is about.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why. Not until the future eats the present, anyway. We know when it's too late.

I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way.