Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

It wasn't just love that held people together. There was secrets, and the price you paid to keep them.

On the subject of love at first sight, I’m with the Beatles: I believe that it happens all the time.

Sometimes a cigar is just a smoke and a story's just a story

I believe that the combination of pencil and memory creates a kind of practical magic, and magic is dangerous.

On the day of my judgment, when I stand before God, and He asks me why did I kill one of his true miracles, what am I gonna say? That it was my job? My job?

The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I.