Only God gets things right the first time.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

A woman who would steal your love when your love was really all you had to give was not much of a woman.

The kids accepted my drinking as a part of life. Not a particularly pernicious part. I didn't beat up on them. Basically I don't think I was so different from a lot of dads who have three or four martinis when they get in from work, wine with dinner and so on.

Oh Christ, he groaned to himself, if this is the stuff adults have to think about I never want to grow up

There had never been a shortage of fools in the world

When machines fail, when technology fails, when the conventional religion fails, people have got to have something. Even a zombin lurching through the night can seem pretty cheerful compared to the existential comedy/horror of the ozone layer dissolving under the combined assult of a million flurocarbon spray cans of deoderant." - The Mist