I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

I win, you win. You win, I win. The gun, I win. The fruit, you win. I win, you win.

Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

When you put on a clown suit and a rubber nose, nobody has any idea what you look like inside.

Forced to define 'irrational subconscious,' I would say that it is a small padded room inside all of us, where the only furnishing is a small card table, and the only thing on the card table is a revolver loaded with flexible bullets.

I started to submit when I was twelve, and obviously at that time they weren't good enough, and I suppose in my heart of hearts I knew it. But you have to start sooner or later, you have to dig in.