Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

Most people are optimists, although they may claim they are not. People who call themselves realists are often the biggest optimists of all.

He thrusts his fists against the posts and still insists he sees the ghosts.

Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.

You couldn't not like someone who liked the guitar.

The town has a sense, not of history, but of time, and the telephone poles seem to know this. If you lay your hand against one, you can feel the vibration from the wires deep within the wood, as if souls had been imprisoned in there and were struggling to get out.

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the thundering voice of God answered, 'There's just something about you that pisses me off.'