Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.

A great whispering noise began to rise in the woods on either side of the tracks, as if the forest had just noticed we were there and was commenting on it.

He had come to believe that life was a series of ironic ambushes. - Doctor Sleep

As infants, our first victory comes in grasping some bit of the world, usually our mother's fingers. Later we discover that the world, and the things of the world, are grasping us, and have been all along.

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

Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.

The workman cut to the left, still laying on his horn, and roared around the drunkenly weaving limousine. He invited the driver of the limo to perform an illegal sex act on himself. To engage in oral congress with various rodents and birds. He articulated his own proposal that all persons of Negro blood return to their native continent. He expressed his sincere belief in the position the limo driver's soul would occupy in the afterlife. He finished by saying that he believed he had met the limodriver's mother in a New Orleans house of prostitution.