I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it.

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Politics always change. Stories never do.

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

Scaring people, especially in our day and time, is one of the hardest things on earth, as far as I am concerned.