Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ.
People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.
Money talks, bullshit walks.
I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.
She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog.