Death, but not for you, gunslinger. Never for you. You darkle. You tinct. May I be brutally frank? You go on.

A kid of your age---any kid---could get hold of matches if she wanted to, burn up the house or whatever. But not many do. Why would they want to?

I want to engage the reader. I'm an emotional writer, in the sense that I would be happy if you re-read a book for the intellectual or the mental part of it, but, the first time, I just like to reach out and grab you, pull you in.

God wiped snot out of his nose and that was you.

Give a man or woman back his self-respect, and in most cases-not all, but most-you also give back that person's ability to think with at least some clarity.

Symbolism exists to adorn and enrich, not to create an artificial sense of profundity.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.