If God rewards us on earth for good deeds—the Old Testament suggests it’s so, and the Puritans certainly believed it—then maybe Satan rewards us for evil ones.

I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.

Only children tell the whole truth, you know. That's what makes them children.

This is how a man looks when he's deciding that the risk of death is better than the risk of change.

What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger!" the man in black laughed.

Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.

It's a writer's job to carve with language, to hew close to the bone.