I am in trouble here. This woman is not right.

Swear to me swear to me that if it isn't dead you'll all come back.

I never met a writer who wasn't lazy.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.

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

Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.

I think we'd all like to believe that after we shuffle off this mortal coil, that there's going to be something on the other side because for most of us, I know for me, life is so rich, so colorful and sensual and full of good things, things to read, things to eat, things to watch, places to go, new experiences, that I don't want to think that you just go to darkness.