And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

The shining. It was a good name, a comforting name, because she had always thought of it as a dark thing.

Everything in moderation. And that includes a couple of beers a day.

Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.

We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.

Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working.

I don't want to just mess with your head. I want to mess with your life.... I want you to miss appointments, burn dinner, skip your homework. I want you to tell your wife to take that moonlight stroll on the beach at Waikiki with the resort tennis pro while you read a few more chapters.