Discipline and constant work are the whetstones upon which the dull knife of talent is honed until it becomes sharp enough, hopefully, to cut through even the toughest meat and gristle.

I think we rarely recognize the fifth business in our lives at the time those people are changing us.

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

I just didn't want her to get hurt. I thought she was going to be. But everyone gets their share, don't they? Sure. Pow, in the nose. Pow, in the eye. Pow, below the belt, down you go, and the ref just went out for a hot dog.

The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet.

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

I don't really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don't like to write about the old standard where some rotten guy gets chased by a mean spirit that gets him in the end.I'd rather write about nice people that are menaced from outside by some sort of evil power and who sort of slug it out.