"Am I weird?" "Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."

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?

Pray for rain all you like, but dig a well as you do it.

I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and you'll be happy.' I'm happy now, and that has had an effect on my life and my relationship with my wife and kids and even my friends. I've always wanted to be a writer.

Even at eleven, he had observed that things turned out right a ridiculous amount of the time.

If you want to play, you gotta pay.

And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend