A short story is like a kiss in the dark.

Every man or woman who loves Him, they hate Him too, because He's a hard God, a jealous God.

We fall from womb to tomb, from one blackness and toward another, remembering little of the one and knowing nothing of the other ... except through faith.

Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.

The only leverage the manufacturer can apply to the retailer is his relationship with the consumer. And the main element in profit growth is going to have to lie in making his brand more valuable to the retailer, through its being more valuable to the consumer. And that means his brand must be unique, it must have no adequate direct substitutes - because it is in this, after all, that value lies.

There are lots of guys out there who write a better prose line than I do and who have a better understanding of what people are really like and what humanity is supposed to mean - hell, I know that.

The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.