Drive away and try to keep smiling. Get a little rock and roll on the radio and go toward life with all the courage you can find and all the belief you can muster. Be true, be brave, stand.

...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

Dead was the gift that kept on giving. Dead, like diamonds, was forever.

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

Legends grow beards, and twenty-three years is plenty of time to grow a long one.

The world, although well-lighted with fluorescents and incandescent bulbs and neon, is still full of odd dark corners and unsettling nooks and crannies.

I spend a lot of time parenting because I'm home. A friend of mine told me that the average father sees each kid an average of twenty-two minutes a week, which I found almost unbelievable. Mine are in my hip pocket all the time. And I like it that way.