Life isn't a support system for art. It's the other way around.

What Jack didn't understand was that no matter where he went, the same asshole got off the plane.

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them - words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out.

If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

Later, going home, I realized they didn't look alike at all; what made them seem to was the aftermath of stress and the lingering of sorrow. It's strange how pain marks our faces, and makes us look like family.

Paul LePage has become a terrible embarrassment to the state I live in and love. If he won't govern, he should resign.