I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

The trick is to teach yourself to read in small sips as well as long swallows.

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again.

Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

I looked at the ceiling and wished this life was over. This unhappy life that had started out so confidently. I thought I would sleep no more that night but eventually I did. In the end we always wear out our worries. That's what Wire man says.

Come on back and we’ll see if you remember the simplest thing of all – how it is to be children, secure in belief and thus afraid of the dark.

I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.