How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?

There came a time when you realized that moving on was pointless. That you took yourself with you wherever you went.

There will be water if God wills it.

Money means I can support my family and still do what I love. Not very many people can say that in this world, and not many writers can say that.

I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.

The essential and defining characteristic of childhood is not the effortless merging of dream and reality, but only alienation. There are no words for childhood's dark turns and exhalations. A wise child recognizes it and submits to the necessary consequences. A child who counts the cost is a child no longer.

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