He could feel the pores of his body open like a million mouths and slurp the water in like a sponge.

By tomorrow at this time, I think you're going to have a much better idea of what crazy is. -- Ev Hillman

Directing teenage actors is like juggling jars of nitro-glycerine: exhilarating and dangerous.

"You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand a very simple concept. "Hedges against the night."

I like to think that good people win. But even good people have other sides. Most people will slow down to get a good look at an accident, even though they won't admit it.

If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.

Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.