It's been quite a while since I was really afraid that there was a boogeyman in my closet, although I am still very careful to keep my feet under the covers when I go to sleep, because the covers are magic, and if your feet are covered, it's like boogeyman Kryptonite.

The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.

But see that you get on. That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.

I did spend years as an addict, so I know that world, although I wish I didn't.

I understand from my own work that haste makes waste. But I also understand that ... the creative spark dims, and then death puts it out. William Shakespeare, for instance, hasn’t produced a new play for 400 years. That, my friends, is a long dry spell.

The book is not the important part. The book is the delivery system. The important part is the story and the talent.

you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.