When your story is ready for rewrite, cut it to the bone. Get rid of every ounce of excess fat. This is going to hurt; revising a story down to the bare essentials is always a little like murdering children, but it must be done.

Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the triangles have four sides, and some have five, and some have five raised to the fifth power of sides. In this universe there might grow roses which sing. Everything leads to everything.

If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long.

The town kept its secrets, and the Marsten House brooded over it like a ruined king.

Some guys-a lot of guys-don't believe what they are seeing, especially if it gets in the way of what they want to eat or drink or believe. Me, I don't believe in God. But if i saw him, I would. I wouldn't just go around saying, "Jesus, that was a great special effect." The definition of an asshole is a guy who doesn't believe what he's seeing.

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.