There's a lot of things people think they can't do and then discover they can when they find themselves tight-wired.

I don't want to speak too disparagingly of my generation (actually I do, we had a chance to change the world and opted for the Home Shopping Network instead), but there was a view among the student writers I knew at that time that good writing came spontaneously, in an uprush of feeling that had to be caught at once; when you were building that all-important stairway to heaven, you couldn't just stand around with your hammer in your hand.

You’d be surprised what a person can live with,” Dan said.

Say your name over two hundred times and discover you are no one.

I'm most afraid of losing my mind. You lose your identity, your sense of who you are, where you are.

There's a Mr. Hyde for every happy Jekyll face, a dark face on the other side of the mirror.

...belief has a second edge. If there are ten thousand medieval peasants who create vampires by believing them real, there may be one - probably a child - who will imagine the stake necessary to kill it. But a stake is only stupid wood; the mind is the mallet which drives it home.