He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

I like to always stop with a couple of pages that I haven't - that are just raw copy, where I haven't touched it, I haven't tried to revise it, I haven't tried to polish it. It's like having a little bit of a runway. The next day when you sit down, you have the comfort of saying, well, I have got a little bit here, used to be in the typewriter. Now it's in the magic box, the computer.

She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.

Every liberal in the country must watch Fox News for one year, and every conservative in the country must watch MSNBC for one year. (Middle-of-the-roaders could stick with CSI)

The world had teeth and it could bite you with them anytime it wanted.

So what, ghosts can't hurt you. That's what I thought then.

I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future.