Anger is the most useless emotion," Henchick intoned, "destructive to the mind and hurtful to the heart.

Stories are artifacts, not really made things which we create and can take credit for, but pre-existing objects which we dig up.

I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.

I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.

I'm having a magenta day. Not just red, but magenta!

Semi-facetiously, when people ask me why I write these kinds of stories, I simply say that I was warped as a child. And, there is some truth to that.

It's not the pain I'm afraid of; I know about the pain. What I'm afraid of is the end of this small, sweet dream.