Talent is a dull knife that will cut nothing unless it is wielded with great force.

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

The boat dipped and swayed and sometimes took on water, but it did not sink; the two brothers had waterproofed it well. I do not know where it finally fetched up, if it ever did; perhaps it reached the sea and sails there forever, like a magic boat in a fairytale. All I know is that it was still afloat and still running on the breast of the flood when it passed the incorporated town limits of Derry, Maine, and there it passes out of this tale forever.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.

God turned out to be a bunch of bad little kids playing interstellar Xbox. Isn't that funny?