You learn best by reading a lot and writing a lot, and the most valuable lessons of all are the ones you teach yourself.

I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

For a woman a man will do many things that he'd turn his back on in an instant when alone; things he'd back away from, nine times out of ten, even when drunk adn with a bunch of his friends egging him on.

Until that afternoon in October four years ago, I hadn't known dogs could scream.

It's a poorboy sanditch,' Roland said. 'With lots of mayo, whatever that is. I'd want a sauce that didn't look quite so much like come, myself, but may it do ya fine.

When a man has died, he wants you to know about it.