I don't have nightmares; I give them all to you.

Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live.

And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.

A dimwit thinks nothing is funny unless it's mean.

You know how it's going to end, but instead of spoiling things, that somehow increases your fascination. It's like watching a kid run his electric train faster and faster and waiting for it to derail on one of the curves.