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've spread my legs in the backseat in a creative sense quite a few times.

Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?

Time continued to pass - the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.

I got letters from people that have had peculiar psychic experiences, experiences with the dead - sometimes fairly tranquil experiences and sometimes very terrifying experiences. I do believe that a lot of them are sincere. I do believe, also, that some of them may be misguided. But, I think the majority of them have experienced something.

When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.