My wife says, and I agree with her, that what would be really great for Maine would be to legalize dope completely and set up dope stores the way that there are state-run liquor stores. You could get your Acapulco gold or your whatever it happened to be - your Augusta gold or your Bangor gold. And people would come from all the other states to buy it, and there could be a state tax on it. Then everybody in Maine could have a Cadillac.

Don't let the door hitcha where the good Lord splitcha.

Zombies are the new vampire.

And I wonder if there is really any point to what I'm doing, or what I'm supposed to make of a world where a man can get rich playing "let's pretend

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

Money means I can support my family and still do what I love. Not very many people can say that in this world, and not many writers can say that.

That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.