The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.

Seven, Richie thought. That's the magic number. There has to be seven of us. That's the way it's supposed to be.

because the hardest boss a man can ever have is himself.

We have once again succeeded in destroying what we could not create.

The story is the only thing that's important. Everything else will take care of itself. It's like what bowlers say. You hear writers talk about character or theme or mood or mode or tense or person. But bowlers say, if you make the spares, the strikes will take care of themselves. If you can tell a story, everything else becomes possible. But without story, nothing is possible, because nobody wants to hear about your sensitive characters if there's nothing happening in the story. And the same is true with mood. Story is the only thing that's important.

In these silences something may rise

I'm not making an enemy; I'm keepin' one.